This tool removes all BBCode tags from text, leaving only the readable content. Useful for extracting forum posts, moderating content, or importing data into plain-text systems. Runs in your browser.
BBCode to Text Converter removes all markup tags from forum messages to leave only clean, readable prose. This forum markup remover is indispensable when you need to extract the core text from posts on phpBB, vBulletin, or XenForo without the clutter of [b], [i], [url], and [quote] tags.
Legacy forum messages often contain decades of tagged content that needs to be cleaned for modern use. When indexing content for a search engine, feeding it into a language model, or performing a sentiment analysis, you need a plain text extractor that can handle nested tags and malformed markup artifacts. This legacy forum cleaner ensures that only your words remain.
Yes. [url=https://example.com]Click here[/url] outputs "Click here" - the link text, not the URL. If you want the URL, use BBCode to HTML instead and then extract href attributes.
[img] tags are removed entirely - images have no text equivalent. If you need to capture the image URL, extract it before running the strip.
Yes - the tags are removed but the code text inside is kept. If you want to exclude code blocks from the output (e.g. for readability analysis), enable the "skip code blocks" option.
Not directly - all text including quoted content is included in the output. Attributed quotes via [quote=Username] retain only the quoted text, not the attribution.
Whether you're cleaning up a single post or processing a massive legacy archive, this tool ensures you get the text without BBCode every time. For those who need to keep the formatting while changing platforms, try our BBCode to HTML tool, and bookmark this BBCode to Text Converter for future cleanup.