It is possible, it depends what you mean by "some text". For example WWW::Mechanize's $mech->content() method allows you to return a text only version of the page by using $mech->content( format => 'text' ), but I suspect you may want to parse out some specific information, rather than the entire page.
There are several modules for parsing HTML such as HTML::Parser and HTML::TokeParser, also see HTML::TokeParser help - parsing headlines or use super search to find more examples.
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Yep. Look through WWW::Mechanize's documentation as it's a high-level module that automates web scripting. Also look at learning an HTML parser (like HTML::TreeBuilder, which uses HTML::Parser to build a tree structure out of the HTML from which you can traverse) if you need something more than a simple snippet you can get with regular expressions.
Finally, if you need more assistance ask a specific question here (although make sure you try whatever you're asking for help on doing first!) and pick up a book - Perl Cookbook is pretty popular and has an entire chapter on web automation.
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If you want to get down to the basics of obtaining web-pages, have a look at LWP::UserAgent.
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