printer/html2text/README.md
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Much improved html2text (fromhtml) Handles tags and mentions specifically; display the URL in the other cases.
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# html2text
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This is a copy of github.com/sgoertzen/html2text, heavily customized for
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Mastodon's HTML messages.
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html2text is an HTML to text converter written in Go.
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This library will strip the html tags from the source and perform clean up on the text.
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This includes things like adding new lines correctly and appending on urls from links.
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For Mastodon tags, URLs are not displayed.