Extract Text from HTML Content

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Code introduction


This function extracts all the text content from the given HTML content.


Technology Stack : lxml

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate


                
                    
def extract_text_from_html(html_content):
    from lxml import etree
    
    # Parse the HTML content using lxml's etree
    parser = etree.HTMLParser()
    tree = etree.fromstring(html_content, parser)
    
    # Extract text from all the elements in the HTML
    text_elements = tree.xpath('//text()')
    
    # Join all the text elements into a single string
    full_text = ''.join(text_elements)
    
    return full_text                
              
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