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html2text

v0.17.1 Growing

Render HTML as plain text.

MIT Edition 2024 MSRV 1.85
Text processing #text#html

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 36d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (1.3K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
3.9M
Dependents
1.3K
Releases
77
Size
101KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

457.9K downloads in the last 30 days (15.3K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.3K crates depend on html2text. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

html2text has only 1 owner despite 1.3K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 9+ years old, html2text hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include komac, lemmy_utils, mdka, cio-api, mistralrs-core. When high-quality crates choose html2text, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 17/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 13/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
17K/day avg-31%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.16.7
75%
v0.17.1
7%
v0.16.6
7%
v0.16.2
6%
v0.16.5
5%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

cssxmlcss_exthtml_tracehtml_trace_bt

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
12
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.3K
crates depend on html2text

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