How To Install python3-html-text on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-html-text on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-html-text is extract text from HTML.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-html-text on Debian 12.

What is python3-html-text

python3-html-text is:

How is html_text different from .xpath(’//text()’) from LXML or .get_text() from Beautiful Soup ?

  • Text extracted with html_text does not contain inline styles, javascript, comments and other text that is not normally visible to users;
  • html_text normalizes whitespace, but in a way smarter than .xpath(’normalize-space()), adding spaces around inline elements (which are often used as block elements in html markup), and trying to avoid adding extra spaces for punctuation;
  • html-text can add newlines (e.g. after headers or paragraphs), so that the output text looks more like how it is rendered in browsers.

There are three methods to install python3-html-text on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python3-html-text Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-html-text using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-html-text

Install python3-html-text Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-html-text using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-html-text

Install python3-html-text Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-html-text using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-html-text

How To Uninstall python3-html-text on Debian 12

To uninstall only the python3-html-text package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-html-text

Uninstall python3-html-text And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-html-text and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-html-text

Remove python3-html-text Configurations and Data

To remove python3-html-text configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-html-text

Remove python3-html-text configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-html-text configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-html-text

Dependencies

python3-html-text have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-html-text package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.