How to get text of a page using wget without html?

Question

If I try wget on a webpage, I am getting the page as html. Is it possible to retrieve only text of a file without associated html ? (This is required for me since some of the HTML pages contains c program is getting downloaded with html tags. I have to open it in browser and manually copy the text to make a .c file.)

Answer 1

wget will only retrieve the document. If the document is in HTML, what you want is the result of parsing the document.

You could, for example, use lynx -dump -nolist, if you have lynx around.

lynx is a lightweight, simple web browser, which has the -dump feature, used to output the result of the parsing process. -nolist avoids the list of links at the end, which will appear if the page has any hyperlinks.

As mentioned by @Thor, elinks can be used for this too, as it also has a -dump option (and has -no-references to omit the list of links). It may be especially useful if you walk across some site using -sigh- frames (MTFBWY).

Also, keep in mind that, unless the page is really just C code with HTML tags, you will need to check the result, just to make sure there's nothing more than C code there.