How to ignore the "#" which the <h1> -<h6>generate

[feiglex]

• Version by html2text --2016.9.19
• Python version python --2.7.13
• ` import html2text

html = "<p>hello, this is <em>html2text</em></p><strong>it is strong label</strong>" h = html2text.HTML2Text() print h.handle(html)

h.ignore_emphasis = True print h.handle(html)

html = "<h6>This is title</h6>" print h.handle(html) # value: ###### This is title`

[lroolle]

This is a html2markdown :XD cause we're encountering with the same problem...

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And, related code is right here...

        if hn(tag):
            self.p()
            if start:
                self.inheader = True
                self.o(hn(tag) * "#" + ' ')
            else:
                self.inheader = False
                return  # prevent redundant emphasis marks on headers

Hmm,,,,

https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text/blob/aa67e1c3b78a2827cc396289139d85a33518d82c/html2text/__init__.py#L328

[Alir3z4]

So you want to keep the whole thing same but only removing # from the output ?

[feiglex]

yeah, I just want to keep the text i see in the website. Are there any configuration to remove # ?

[Alir3z4]

No, there's no option to disable the formats. We aim to generate a text that at least is able to get back to its original format, removing all format options won't be helpful.

However, for the purpose of removing all the HTML tags from the text, you can use lxml or beautifulsoap and perform stripping html tags that will give.

There's a similar feature request: https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text/issues/170

[mj-dd]

this should be called html2markdown

[bjd-pfq]

@mj-dd

this should be called html2markdown

Well said. This is a con: it cannot perform what its name implies.