inscriptis

library2.7.1pypypi✓ verified 35d ago

Inscriptis is a Python-based HTML to text conversion library, command line client, and Web service (v2.7.1). It specializes in providing high-quality, layout-aware text representations of HTML content, including support for nested tables and a subset of CSS, and offers optional annotated output. The library is actively maintained with regular releases addressing new Python versions and feature enhancements.

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Install & Compatibility

Where this runs

tested against v2.7.1 · pip install

no network on importno background threads

Install × environment matrix

Each cell = how many times install + import succeeded across repeated harness runs. Partial = flaky.
glibc = Debian/Ubuntu slim · musl = Alpine Linux

musl

py 3.10–3.940 runs

installs and imports cleanly · install 0.0s · import 0.102s · 48.7MB

glibc

py 3.10–3.940 runs

installs and imports cleanly · install 3.8s · import 0.097s · 48MB

47MB installed

● package 47MB

Code

Verified usage

Verified import paths — ran on the pinned version, not inferred.

from inscriptis import get_text

Convert HTML from a URL to plain text, preserving layout and structure. The example fetches content from 'https://www.informationscience.ch' and prints its text representation.

import urllib.request from inscriptis import get_text url = "https://www.informationscience.ch" try: with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response: html_content = response.read().decode('utf-8') except Exception as e: html_content = f"<html><body><p>Error fetching URL: {e}</p></body></html>" text = get_text(html_content) print(text)

inscriptis --version

Debug

Known footguns

breakingThe `XmlAnnotationProcessor` (introduced in 2.6.0) now requires a mandatory root element. The generated XML will contain a `<content>` root element by default. If you were using this processor directly, your XML output structure will change.

deprecatedSupport for Python 3.9 has been removed as of version 2.7.0. Python 3.8 support was deprecated in 2.5.1 and subsequently removed.

gotchaWhen processing very complex HTML pages, `inscriptis` (which uses `lxml` internally) may exhibit increased memory consumption due to `lxml`'s tendency to reuse memory rather than releasing it back to the operating system.

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Version history

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Security & dependencies

CVE tracking and dependency tree are planned for a later release.

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Resources

githubhttps://github.com/weblyzard/inscriptis ↗

packagehttps://pypi.org/project/inscriptis/ ↗

homepagehttps://inscriptis.informatik.uni-mannheim.de ↗

docshttps://inscriptis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ↗