If you just want to extract the text from a Website HTML-Strip could be interessting too.

AddOn:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::Strip;

my $hs = HTML::Strip->new();
print $hs->parse( get('http://www.perlmonks.org/') );
$hs->eof;
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