Find way to Rip text from website

[scottstown]

Hey, im trying to find a way to "rip" the text from a website. Basically im trying to be able to see a site with no images, ads, etc.. I was thinking of maybe trying curl. Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this?

 

Thanks Scott

[The Little Guy]

do you want just the text or the HTML too?

[scottstown]

just the text

[scottstown]

does anyone have any ideas?

[The Little Guy]

cURL is one way, another would be to fopen:

 

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<?php
// get contents of a file into a string
$filename = "http://google.com";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));

$find = array("~<script(.*)</script>~","~<style(.*)</style>~");
$repl= array(" "," ");

$contents = preg_replace($find,$repl,$contents);
$contents = strip_tags($contents);

echo $contents;
fclose($handle);
?>

[inactive]

heard of snoopy? it has a text only setting i'm pretty sure. have a look around sourceforge for it.