Re: Html to text

not exactly a perl solution, you can try 'lynx -dump' or 'www-browser -dump' on a unix based machine(provided if lynx and www-browser commands were installed).

Vivek
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Re^2: Html to text by Anonymous Monk on Mar 22, 2009 at 15:24 UTC
`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;` [download] This isn't giving me much :( Do I need to pretend that I'm a browser and not a bot. How do I do that? Thank you!	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Html to text
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 22, 2009 at 15:24 UTC

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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