Is there an easy way in linux to strip the website of text from the command line?

Question

I was looking for a command line tool that would turn the html code into text that will be displayed on the site ... so this would be equivalent to selecting everything in a web browser and then inserting it into the text editor ...

Does anyone know something in Ubuntu to do this? I am trying to write a script to parse some web pages, but would prefer not to deal with HTML and would rather just parse the text that appears on the website.

Thanks,

Dan

Answer 1

lynx -dump http://example.com/ 

Answer 2

if you already have the html file:

 lynx -dump file.html > file.txt 

otherwise use @Ignacio

Answer 3

I think you need a lynx:

 lynx -dump http://stackoverflow.com > file