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AI agents and scripts can call this tool directly, to check their work or look something up, and get JSON back with the same answer this page gives. No key needed.
GET https://digitalgreenhouse.com.au/api/tools/html-entity?text=%3Ca%20href%3D%22x%22%3ETom%20%26%20Jerry%3C%2Fa%3Etext— string, required. Text to encode, or HTML with entities to decode.mode— string, one ofencode|decode, defaultencode. encode or decode.all— boolean, defaultfalse. When encoding, also turn non-ASCII characters into numeric entities.
The API answers from our server, and our code doesn’t store what you send. Fair-use limits apply. API guide · all endpoints (JSON) · OpenAPI
When to escape HTML
A few characters have special meaning in HTML: < and > start and end tags, & begins an entity, and quotes delimit attributes. If you want to show those characters as text — in a code example, or any time you’re inserting untrusted content — you have to “escape” them into entities like <. Doing this properly is also a core defence against cross-site scripting (XSS). Decoding does the reverse, turning entities back into the original characters.