Extracting text from HTML file using Python

Question

I\'d like to extract the text from an HTML file using Python. I want essentially the same output I would get if I copied the text from a browser and pasted it into notepad.

Answer 1

in a simple way

import re

html_text = open('html_file.html').read()
text_filtered = re.sub(r'<(.*?)>', '', html_text)

this code finds all parts of the html_text started with '<' and ending with '>' and replace all found by an empty string