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How to get text from a webpage?

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I_0KI 40
6 years ago

I know to get the HTML contents of a webpage you would do test = game:GetService("HttpService"):GetAsync("http://example.com") print(test) but how would you get just the text contents? I've done it before, I just forgot how.

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Well... for something like that, the website would have to be something with RAW Text Wiscript 622 — 6y

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WillieTehWierdo200 966 Moderation Voter
6 years ago 
function stripTags(html)
  return string.gsub(html, "<[^>]+>", "")
end
local html = game:GetService("HttpService"):GetAsync("http://example.com") 
local text, numberOfTagsRemoved = stripTags(html)
print(text)

Output:






    Example Domain





    body {
        background-color: #f0f0f2;
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;

    }
    div {
        width: 600px;
        margin: 5em auto;
        padding: 50px;
        background-color: #fff;
        border-radius: 1em;
    }
    a:link, a:visited {
        color: #38488f;
        text-decoration: none;
    }
    @media (max-width: 700px) {
        body {
            background-color: #fff;
        }
        div {
            width: auto;
            margin: 0 auto;
            border-radius: 0;
            padding: 1em;
        }
    }





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You could also do the following before calling stripTags(), to narrow down the content returned at the end:- Remove everything that's not in the <body>- Remove any <style> and <script> elements (this is a bit tricky to do without a full HTML parser) WillieTehWierdo200 966 — 6y
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