code: def extractFromHTML(html, blur=5):
      
  
      #html = html.encode('utf-8', errors='ignore')
      try:
          html = unicode(html, errors='ignore')
      except TypeError:
          pass
      assert isinstance(html, unicode)
  
      # Create memory file.
      _file = StringIO()
  
      # Convert html to text.
      f = formatter.AbstractFormatter(formatter.DumbWriter(_file))
      p = TextExtractor()
      p.pathBlur = blur
      p.feed(html)
      p.close()
      text = p.get_plaintext()
  
      # Remove stand-alone punctuation.
      text = re.sub("\s[\(\),;\.\?\!](?=\s)", " ", text).strip()
  
      # Compress whitespace.
      text = re.sub("[\n\s]+", " ", text).strip()
  
      # Remove consequetive dashes.
      text = re.sub("\-{2,}", "", text).strip()
  
      # Remove consequetive periods.
      text = re.sub("\.{2,}", "", text).strip()
  
      return text
docs: Extracts text from HTML content.