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24 alternatives to HTML Stripper

Strip the HTML and make it clean

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HTML Stripper launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Free online HTML cleaner. Strip scripts, CSS, and unnecessary markup from messy HTML. Simplify and clean up code in one click — no signup required. 🔧🛠

    2017 · htmlwasher.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    Tidy up your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code

    2015 · dirtymarkup.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I originally built “html-to-markdown” back in 2018 (while still in high school) to handle complex HTML conversions where other libraries struggled. Now, I’ve released v2 — a complete rewrite designed to handle even more edge cases. It supports entire websites with a high accuracy. Example use: I’ve used it in my RSS reader to strip HTML down to clean Markdown, similar to the "Reader Mode" in your Browser. It can be used as a Golang package or as an CLI. Give it a try & tell me what edge cases you encounter!

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Text cleaning and formatting

    2022 · textcleaner.net · its alternatives →

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    My partner usually writes substack posts which I then mirror to our website’s blog section. To automate this, I made a simple tool to scrape the post and clean it so that I can drop it to our blog easily. This might be useful to others as well. Oh and ofcourse you can instruct GPT to make any final edits :D

    2024 · markdowndown.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Turn web content into clean Markdown with one click

    2025 · wanyi.dev · its alternatives →

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    Turn any website into an API in just a few seconds.

    2019 · simplescraper.io · its alternatives →

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    Find and remove every trace AI leaves in your text

    Aug 2026 · claudewatermark.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Automate and extract contents from any website easily

    2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Reduces HTML to basic HTML tags and attributes

    2017 · htmlwasher.com · its alternatives →

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    Extract clean Markdown, HTML, or plain text from content-heavy websites.

    2022 · content-parser.com · its alternatives →

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    Clean Markdown formatting, all in your browser

    2025 · markdown-tidy.trybase.net · its alternatives →

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    Convert any page to clean Markdown instantly

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Strips any webpage down to just the article

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Automatically extract body content (and other cool stuff) from an html document - ageitgey/node-unfluff

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Free tool to quickly clean unsafe HTML and block scripts

    2025 · dom-sanitizer.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Copy paste a Google Doc into a clean Wordpress post

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    your Code Assistant Extract html, css, js from mixed code

    2025 · v0-image-analysis-pxrqta.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Convert Markdown text to clean HTML instantly | Themedevhub

    2025 · themedevhub.com · its alternatives →

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    Fix messy layout formatting from PDF copy-pastes

    Jun 2026 · textsanitizer.online · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN -- I'm a solo dev. Built this because I got tired of AI crawlers reading my HTML in plain text while robots.txt did nothing. The core trick: shuffle characters and words in your HTML using a seed, then use CSS (flexbox order, direction: rtl, unicode-bidi) to put them back visually. Browser renders perfectly. textContent returns garbage. On top of that: email/phone RTL obfuscation with decoy characters, AI honeypots that inject prompt instructions into LLM scrapers, clipboard interception, canvas-based image rendering (no img src in DOM), robots.txt blocking 30+ AI crawlers, and…

    Mar 2026 · obscrd.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Ah yes, another web scraper. There are so many out there, so why make another one? Because I wanted one that's stupid simple and stupid fast. Unlike most web scrapers, Easy Scraper doesn’t make you build a new scraper for each site or individually select fields. You just open it and bam, your data's ready to go. My favorite use case for instantly extracting data anywhere is being able to easily talk to ChatGPT about custom datasets. For example, here's a 1-minute demo of me scraping my Twitter followers to find the ones that live in San Francisco:…

    2024 · easyscraper.com · its alternatives →

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    Markdown to HTML Converter – Clean, Fast & Free Tool

    2025 · markdown-to-html-one.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    A Free, clean and simple HTML code formatter and previewer.

    2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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