A PHP HTML to pure text transformer that beautifully handles various and malformed HTML.
Hypertext is excellent at pulling text content out of any HTML based document and automatically:
- Removes CSS
- Removes scripts
- Removes headers
- Removes non-HTML based content
- Preserves spacing
- Preserves links (optional)
- Preserves new lines (optional)
It is directed at using the output in LLM related tasks, such as prompts and embeddings.
composer require stevebauman/hypertextuse Stevebauman\Hypertext\Transformer;
$transformer = new Transformer();
// (Optional) Retain new line characters.
$transformer->keepNewLines();
// (Optional) Retain anchor tags and their href attribute.
$transformer->keepLinks();
$text = $transformer->toText($html);For larger examples, please view the tests/Fixtures directory.
Input:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>My Blog</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to My Blog</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph of text on my webpage.</p>
<a href="https://blog.com/posts">Click here</a> to view my posts.
</body>
</html>Output (Pure Text):
echo (new Transformer)->toText($html);Welcome to My Blog This is a paragraph of text on my webpage. Click here to view my posts.
Output (Keep New Lines):
echo (new Transformer)->keepNewLines()->toText($html);Welcome to My Blog
This is a paragraph of text on my webpage.
Click here to view my posts.
Output (Keep Links):
echo (new Transformer)->keepLinks()->toText($html);Welcome to My Blog This is a paragraph of text on my webpage. <a href="https://blog.com/posts">Click Here</a> to view my posts.
Output (Keep Both):
echo (new Transformer)
->keepLinks()
->keepNewLines()
->toText($html);Welcome to My Blog
This is a paragraph of text on my webpage.
<a href="https://blog.com/posts">Click Here</a> to view my posts.