Text Cleaner API

Clean pasted text: strip HTML to plain text, straighten smart quotes, plain dashes and ellipses, remove emoji or non-ASCII characters, Unicode-normalise and fix line endings.

POST /api/v1/tools/text-cleanerMCP text_cleanerText & Writing

Clean messy text in one go: strip HTML tags, straighten smart quotes and dashes, remove emoji or non-ASCII characters, normalise Unicode and fix mixed line endings.

Input

Send these as a JSON object. Unknown fields are rejected.

input: The text to clean. (string, required)
stripHtml: Remove HTML tags, comments, scripts and styles, and decode common entities (regex-based; nothing is rendered). (boolean, default false)
smartQuotes: Curly quotes and primes to straight ' and ". (boolean, default true)
dashes: En dashes, em dashes, minus signs and other dashes to a plain hyphen. (boolean, default false)
ellipsis: The single ellipsis character … to three full stops. (boolean, default true)
removeEmoji: Remove emoji. (boolean, default false)
removeNonAscii: Remove characters outside ASCII; accented letters become their plain forms first. (boolean, default false)
normalize: Unicode normalisation form. (string, one of none, NFC, NFKC, default "none")
lineEndings: keep, lf (Unix \n) or crlf (Windows \r\n). (string, one of keep, lf, crlf, default "keep")

Try it in the browser JSON Schema Get an API key

curl https://pithlab.com/api/v1/tools/text-cleaner \n  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PITHLAB_KEY" \n  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \n  -d '{"input":"<p>“Smart” quotes — and more…</p>","stripHtml":true,"dashes":true}'

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "result": {
    "output": "“Smart” quotes - and more…"
  }
}