Re: Extracting text from a webpage

From: Tad McClellan <tadmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:10:00 -0500

greymaus <maus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2011-06-22, Tad McClellan <tadmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

q-rious <mittra@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

That's exactly what I meant by client side updates -
javascript and Ajax w/ DOM updates.

$page=`lynx -dump`;

lynx does not do javascript and DOM updates...

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