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How to read in HTML as plain text?

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dannydanny

dannydanny

IS-IT--Management
Oct 9, 2002
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Hi,

I`m looking to retrieve the HTML source of a website and save it as plain text so that I can parse the text for information that I need.

Is there a method of open a webpage and read in the source html content?? For example a ReadHTML method where I input the URL, and the method will read the HTML source into a text file.??
I `d rather no resort to opening the webpage in IE, then sending keystrokes to view the source etc etc, as I would like to be able to run a VBS script once a day to do it for me.

I know there a ways in Python to read in a webpage`s HTML source from the command line.... how about VBS?

Any replies much appreciated,
Danny
 
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