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.

Martin