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.
Sometimes you just need the words — not the markup. BBCode to Text strips all [b], [i], [url], [quote], and other BBCode tags from forum posts, leaving pure readable prose. Useful for indexing forum content, migrating archives, or extracting text for natural language processing.
Forum archives often contain years of BBCode-tagged posts. When migrating to a new platform, or when feeding content to a search index, sentiment analyser, or language model, you need clean text without markup artifacts. Stripping BBCode is also necessary before applying word-count, readability, or plagiarism analysis to forum-sourced content.
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.
Use BBCode to HTML if you need to convert markup to HTML instead of stripping it.