I've been searching unsuccessfully for a module to extract just the text from an HTML webpage...
Any suggestions?

Ideally, I want to feed in a URL and return the page's text as plain text - no formatting, tags, etc.

Even most of the text would suffice.

I'm currently using HTML::TreeBuilder and just extracting the p tags which is not quite good enough: 

my $http = HTTP::Tiny->new;
my $resp = $http->get($url);
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
$tree->parse($resp->{'content'});

my @paragraph = $tree->look_down('_tag', 'p');

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
foreach my $line(@paragraph) {
    print $line->as_trimmed_text . "\n";
}

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I thought I'd found a solution with HTML::Extract. But when the sample code in the documentation doesn't compile I knew I was heading down a dead end!

Do you know of a module to extract just the text?

In reply to Module to extract text from HTML by Bod

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
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