use strict;
use warnings;

use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::Strip;

my $url = "http://www.perlmonks.org";
my $html = get($url);

defined $html or die "Can't fetch HTML from: ",$url;

my $hs = HTML::Strip->new();

my $clean_text = $hs->parse( $html );
$hs->eof;

print $clean_text;