From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-05-11T02:14:55+09:00
Subject: Re: How to extract texts from html source?

On Monday 09 May 2005 15:04, Sam Kong wrote:
> Hi, all!
> 
> Quite often, when I need to read a list of web pages, I download the
> html sources and save them in a single file like a.html.
> If they are mostly texts, I open the html using web browser, select all
> and copy it to an editor and save it.
> I want to make the process shorter.
> How can I extract the text from html source?
> I'm sure there're many parsers for it.
> What is the most convenient one?

You may find my HTMLTokenizer library convenient for this.  To do what you 
need, all you'd do is keep calling "tokenizer.getText()"

http://rubyforge.org/projects/htmltokenizer/

Ben