Re: Extract printable text from web page using preg_match
| From: | Colin Guthrie | Date: | Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:08:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Extract printable text from web page using preg_match | ||
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M5 wrote:
> I am trying to write a regex function to extract the readable (visible,
> screen-rendered) portion of any web page. Specifically, I only want the
> text between the <body> tags, excluding any <script> or <style> tags
> within the document, also excluding comments. Has anyone here seen such
> a regex? Is it possible to do in one expression?
Alternative suggestion: "lynx --dump http://www.example.com/"
Col