Re: save a page as text

[Hero Zzyzzx]

No need to involve a browser at all. Here's one way, using the excellent HTML::TokeParser::Simple by the monastery's own Ovid.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::TokeParser::Simple;
my $page=get('http://www.page.you.want.com/some/path');

my $p = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new( \$page );
while ( my $token = $p->get_token ) {
    # This prints all text in an HTML doc (i.e., it strips the HTML)
    next unless $token->is_text;
    print $token->as_is;
}

Stuffing it into a file is left as an exercise for the poster.