diff --git a/app/views/projects/_project.json.jbuilder b/app/views/projects/_project.json.jbuilder
index 550cafce7..279b2d08a 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/_project.json.jbuilder
+++ b/app/views/projects/_project.json.jbuilder
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 json.id project.id
 json.identifier project.identifier
 json.name project.name
-json.description project.description
+json.description Nokogiri::HTML(project.description).text
 json.visits project.visits
 json.praises_count project.praises_count
 json.forked_count project.forked_count