wget without HTML tags

Question

Is there a way to get body of an html page, without the html tags?

curl and wget return the response, but contain HTML tags. We can strip the tags using sed and awk, but I am looking for an existing tool which could do it without sed and awk.

lynx is an option, but it does not come pre-installed.

Thanks !!

Answer 1

Why the aversion to installing an appropriate tool?

As an alternative to lynx, try w3m, e.g.

w3m -dump http://google.com

Answer 2

Converting HTML to plain text in PHP for e-mail lists a few tools, as does How can I Convert HTML to Text in C#? . However, if lynx -dump does what you want then that may the best tool to install.