Python/Django Html to Text Conversion

Html to Text Conversion in Python (Using BeautifulSoup)

import urllib
url = "<url>"
html = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)

# kill all script and style elements
for script in soup(["script", "style"]):
    script.extract()    # rip it out

# get text
text = soup.get_text()
print text

Html to Text Conversion in Django (strip_tags)

from django.utils.html import strip_tags
import urllib

url = "<url>"
html = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
text = strip_tags(html)
print text