bash command to convert html page to a text file

Question

I am a beginner to linux. Would you please help me how to convert an html page to a text file. the text file will remove any images and links from the webpage. I want to use

Answer 1

batch mode for local htm & html file, lynx required

#!/bin/sh
# h2t, convert all htm and html files of a directory to text 

for file in `ls *.htm`
do
new=`basename $file htm`
lynx -dump $file > ${new}txt 
done
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for file in `ls *.html`
do
new=`basename $file html`
lynx -dump $file > ${new}txt 
done

Answer 2

You have html2text.py on command line.

Usage: html2text.py [(filename|url) [encoding]]

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --ignore-links        don't include any formatting for links
  --ignore-images       don't include any formatting for images
  -g, --google-doc      convert an html-exported Google Document
  -d, --dash-unordered-list
                        use a dash rather than a star for unordered list items
  -b BODY_WIDTH, --body-width=BODY_WIDTH
                        number of characters per output line, 0 for no wrap
  -i LIST_INDENT, --google-list-indent=LIST_INDENT
                        number of pixels Google indents nested lists
  -s, --hide-strikethrough
                        hide strike-through text. only relevent when -g is
                        specified as well

Answer 3

You could get nodejs and globally install the module html-to-text:

npm install -g html-to-text

Then use it like this:

html-to-text < stuff.html > stuff.txt

Answer 4

in ubuntu/debian html2text is a good select. http://linux.die.net/man/1/html2text