Html Entity Decode API

POST https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/html-entity-decode/execute

Decode HTML entities back to characters. Handles named entities (amp/lt/gt/quot/apos plus common typography), decimal (&#NNN;), and hex (&#xHH;) forms.

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Request body

application/json

text

string required

Text containing HTML entities.

Example arguments

Verified

{
  "text": "&lt;b&gt;"
}

curl -X POST https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/html-entity-decode/execute \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "text": "&lt;b&gt;"
  }'

const response = await fetch('https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/html-entity-decode/execute', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({"text":"&lt;b&gt;"}),
});
const data = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/html-entity-decode/execute",
    json={"text":"&lt;b&gt;"},
)
data = response.json()

$ch = curl_init('https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/html-entity-decode/execute');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['Content-Type: application/json'],
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => '{"text":"&lt;b&gt;"}',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

Also an MCP tool

Call html_entity_decode from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client. Same arguments, same output.

https://mcp.findutils.com

MCP reference

Rate limit: 60 a minute, per IP
Auth: None
REST id: html-entity-decode
MCP name: html_entity_decode
Category: Encoding
Machine-readable: openapi.json · markdown.md

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