html 2 plain text

[Faber]

robin wrote:

> i remember seeing this simple python function which would take raw html
> and output the content (body?) of the page as plain text (no <..> tags
> etc)
> i have been looking at htmllib and htmlparser but this all seems to
> complicated for what i'm looking for. i just need the main text in the
> body of some arbitrary webbpage to then do some natural-language
> processing with it...
> thanks for pointing me to some helpful resources!

Have a look at the Beautiful Soup library:
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

Regards

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