Re: Extract printable text from web page using preg_match

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.....

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
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