to...@tuxteam.de (to...@tuxteam.de) wrote: > To expand on that, perhaps > > wget -O - <your URL here> | html2text > > tries to make sense of the html (which isn't always possible) and > output some text version of it. The "-O -" tells wget to send its > output to stdout (instead of to a file). > > You get html2text from the like-named package, html2text.
There are several other variants on this, depending on what's installed. One of the most common (oldest) ones is lynx -dump "$url". Most of the terminal-based web browsers have a similar output mode, I think.
