html2text is an [[MIT License]] licensed [[HTML]] to [[Markdown]] converter *package* written in [[Go]]. - [Source](https://github.com/k3a/html2text) > A simple Golang package to convert HTML to plain text (without non-standard dependencies). # Notability # Philosophy > It converts HTML tags to text and also parses HTML entities into characters they represent. A `<head>` section of the HTML document, as well as most other tags are stripped out but links are properly converted into their href attribute.