How it is possible to convert HTML to text file in Linux? For example I want to curl a query to Google, then convert the output html to text and read converted text on my terminal. I am using RHEL6.
2 Answers
I don't think curl has a built in HTML processor. However:
lynx --dump <URL>does the trick.
If you still want to use curl, you could use html2text (available in Ubuntu).
You can install html2text (an advanced HTML-to-text converter) and the usage is straight forward:
$ html2text
$ cat file.html | html2text -o file.txtInstall by:
- Linux:
apt-get install html2text - OS X:
brew install html2text
Example with curl:
$ curl -sL google.com | html2text
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