convert html to txt file

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convert html to txt file

Hi there,

Is there a good program that somebody can recommend that might be run from the command that converts html to txt?

cheers,

Noah

Power Mac G5 DP, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Oct 27, 2006 5:56 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 27, 2006 6:10 PM in response to Noah Wallach

I can tell you two ways to do it.

1) change the file extension to .txt from .html which will do it.

2) open the HTML file in Safari or TextEdit. If it's Safari copy and paste into TextEdit, if it's TextEdit save it.

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Answer 2

Oct 27, 2006 6:39 PM in response to Noah Wallach

More info please. Saving pages as text is as easy as using the "Save As" menu to save as text.

If you want something to save the current browser's page as text, that may be hard because shell cannot interact with browsers, unless you can identify the cache page. If you have a bunch of HTML file that yu want to extract the text from, there are shell commands to do it.

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Answer 3

Oct 27, 2006 6:41 PM in response to Noah Wallach

Noah--

Do you mean stripping out the HTML from the command-line? You could try a Perl script from the perlfaq. If you think you'll be doing a lot of it, definitely look into installing HTML::Parser from CPAN.

There are some GUI programs that will do it, too. BBEdit will, as will TextMate. I'm sure there are other, but those are all I could think of off the top of my head.

charlie

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