Re: Re: Extract printable text from web page using preg_match

On 28-Feb-07, at 1:48 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:

M5 wrote:

No, it's not a very good solution. Striptags will leave everything within <head>, <style> and <script> (in the body or out). Comments are also included. I know it's possible to use non reg-ex strpos/substr to extra everything within <body>, but as another poster correctly said, this assumes a consistent HTML document (which there is not). I realize now that such a regex would be rather sophisticated, but I thought surely it must exist, since text-scrapping the readable content of a web page must not be rare.

Said it before, but low-tech solution is to use program "lynx" with the -dump argument and capture the output back to PHP. I'm assuming you are on Linux or OSX I guess as I've not heard of using lynx on windows.....

Thanks, that sounds like a good direction. And yes, I'm on OS X.

There are loads of command line options to control the way lynx displays the output so you have a very fine grain of control here. Col --PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php