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acrymble/webpage-to-text.py

Created July 5, 2011 19:49
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Python Webpage to Text
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webpage-to-text.py
# Given a URL, return string of lowercase text from page.
def webPageToText(url):
import urllib2
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
html = response.read()
text = stripTags(html).lower()
return text
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