Python 3-compatibe HTML to text converter preserving basic structure under permissive licence?

Question

I am looking for a relatively simple HTML to text converter which displays links and works on strings.

So far I have tried

• lynx but performance is too bad,
• html2text which gives weird and verbose markdown output and is under GPLv3 which is too restrictive for my (BSD-licensed) project,
• http://effbot.org/librarybook/formatter-example-3.py using htmllib.HTMLParser with formatter.AbstractFormatter and a custom writer, however htmllib.HTMLParser is drpeceated and has been removed from Python 3.

So is there any simple, performant, Python 3-compatible HTML to text converter under a permissive license such as MIT/BSD/Apache and the like?

Edit: I dont just need something to strip HTML-Tags but also to preserve the basic structure of the HTML, that is output that somewhat resembles that of Lynx.

Answer 1

Pyparsing's examples include an html stripper and a URL extractor.

Unlike BeautifulSoup and most HTML parsers, Pyparsing does not try to parse the entire HTML document, and return a hierarchical object. Pyparsing is closer to the typical regex scanner/filter engine - but pyparsing's HTML tag expressions are tolerant of many of the tricky variabilities that make regex processing of HTML a nightmare:

• unpredictable upper/lower case
• unpredictable whitespace before and after <, >, and =
• unexpected attributes (like '')
• attribute values in single quotes, or unquoted values
• attributes in varying order