Hi, I'm running this code - 
use strict;
use warnings;

use HTML::Parse;
use HTML::FormatText;
use LWP::Simple;

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

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

my $ascii = HTML::FormatText->new->format(parse_html($html));
print $ascii;

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It gives me the following output - 
[TABLE NOT SHOWN][TABLE NOT SHOWN][TABLE NOT SHOWN][TABLE NOT SHOWN]

   PerlMonks lovingly hand-crafted by Tim Vroom.
   PerlMonks went on a couple dates, and then decided to shack up with
   The Perl Foundation.
   Wonderful Web Servers and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair
   Networks

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I'm running the code on Mac OS X; Perl, v5.8.8 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level (with 4 registered patches).

Can anyone suggest what I might do to extract the raw text from a website since this method is clearly not working for me. I will be running this code on a server, linux hopefully, when I get up and running.

Thanks!

In reply to Extracting raw text from a website by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


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