Emacs 中 HTML 到文本的转换

Question

I have a bunch of org-mode files with snippets containing HTML code and I would like to convert those to plain text.

I don't need any fancy fully automated solution, I can just past my HTML snippet into a scratch buffer if that's easier.

Here's a simple example of desired behavior:

<div><div>First Line<br>Second Line</div></div> 

First Line
Second Line

What are the options available to Emacs users for such a task?

Answer 1

Emacs added EWW in Emacs 24.4 (2014), the Emacs Web Wowser, a built-in web browser . The shr.el library is used for rendering HTML, eg,

(with-temp-buffer
  (insert
   "<div><div>First Line<br>Second Line</div></div> ")
  (shr-render-region (point-min) (point-max))
  (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max)))

;; =>

"First Line
Second Line
"

shr-render-region uses libxml-parse-html-region which requires your Emacs has libxml2 support.

Answer 2

html2org package seems to get the job done

html2org function converts and replaces the HTML code as text.