in reply to Extracting raw text from a website

What exactly do you mean with "raw text"? If you want to strip all HTML-markup from the page, try HTML::Strip.

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Re^2: Extracting raw text from a website
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 03, 2009 at 20:36 UTC
    Hi! I mean what the user sees. Or put another way, the text that a "talking browser" would read to me if I were blind. Thanks!
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      HTML::Strip will do that for you:
      use strict;
use warnings;

use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::Strip;

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

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

my $hs = HTML::Strip->new();

my $clean_text = $hs->parse( $html );
$hs->eof;

print $clean_text;

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      Deleting the spurious whitespace which this module adds, is left as an exercise for the reader.

      CountZero

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