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Re: How can I get a plain text directory with wget?

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On 2012-02-06, Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 02/05/2012 07:31 PM, Sam wrote:
>> Your only option would be to take the
>> return HTML document and convert to plain text yourself, using elinks,
>> or something similar.
>
> elinks sounds like a text based web browser.  Can it be used
> from a script to convert html to text?
>
> Is there some other utility to convert html to text that
> can be used from a script?

I don't know for sure that elinks can do it, but lynx and links can
translate HTML to formatted text.  See the -dump option in the man
pages.  w3m might be able to do it, too, but I don't have it or elinks
installed, so I can't verify that.
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                                 Chick Tower

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How can I get a plain text directory with wget? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-05 19:18 -0800
  Re: How can I get a plain text directory with wget? Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2012-02-05 21:31 -0600
    Re: How can I get a plain text directory with wget? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-05 19:44 -0800
      Re: How can I get a plain text directory with wget? Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2012-02-06 05:51 -0600
      Re: How can I get a plain text directory with wget? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2012-02-06 19:30 +0100
        Re: How can I get a plain text directory with wget? root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-02-06 18:43 +0000
          Re: How can I get a plain text directory with wget? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-02-07 16:37 -0500
  Re: How can I get a plain text directory with wget? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-02-05 22:27 -0500
    Re: How can I get a plain text directory with wget? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-05 19:41 -0800
      Re: How can I get a plain text directory with wget? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-02-06 08:33 -0500
  Re: How can I get a plain text directory with wget? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2012-02-06 04:10 +0000
    Re: How can I get a plain text directory with wget? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-05 23:03 -0800
  Re: How can I get a plain text directory with wget? Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2012-02-06 20:04 +0000
    Re: How can I get a plain text directory with wget? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-02-06 17:39 -0500

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