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A simple script that shows the text contents of any web page
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| # usage: ruby web_cat.rb URL | |
| require 'nokogiri' | |
| require 'open-uri' | |
| uri = ARGV[0] | |
| doc = Nokogiri::HTML open uri | |
| puts doc.text |
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This gets the text contents of the page as if you rendered it and removed all formatting, not the entire source code of the page. For example,
<b>Hello, world!</b>would display asHello, world!.