PHP cURL getting plaintext

Question

I'm using cURL in PHP to get webpage content and it's working great. But my program now requires me to get only plain-text from the target site, instead of HTML. I've looked extensively for this but no one seems to have the answer. I've also tried setting CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT=1 in my cURL options, but this seems to have no effect on the results.

Any idea why this is happening?

Answer 1

Make sure you have the following:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

The return value of curl_exec should then be the data.

Answer 2

I think it is what you are looking for:

<?
$address = file_get_contents('http://www.thesite.com/file.html');
echo $address;



$file = file_get_contents('./file.txt', true);

 or 

$file = file_get_contents('./file.txt', FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH);

?>

Answer 3

Actually I do like this to get the content of another page.

<?php
function curl_get_file_contents($URL)
    {
        $c = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
        $contents = curl_exec($c);
        curl_close($c);

        if ($contents) return $contents;
            else return FALSE;
    }


echo curl_get_file_contents("http://www.php.net");
?>

But it returns to me the whole content.

Answer 4

Do you mean that you want to strip off all the HTML tags on the page?

Simply use the strip_tags() function.