Use PhantomJS to extract html and text

Question

I try to extract all the text content of a page (because it doesn\'t work with Simpledomparser)

I try to modify this simple example from the manual

Answer 1

Having encountered this question while trying to solve a similar problem, I ended up adapting a solution from this question like so:

var fs = require('fs');
var file_h = fs.open('header.html', 'r');
var line = file_h.readLine();
var header = "";

while(!file_h.atEnd()) {

    line = file_h.readLine(); 
    header += line;

}
console.log(header);

file_h.close();
phantom.exit();

This gave me a string with the read-in HTML file that was sufficient for my purposes, and hopefully may help others who came across this.

The question seemed ambiguous (was it the entire content of the file required, or just the "text" aka Strings?) so this is one possible solution.