[GH-ISSUE #212] Generate plain-text output file #143

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opened 2026-03-01 14:41:00 +03:00 by kerem · 1 comment

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2026-03-01 14:41:00 +03:00

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Originally created by @lifelike on GitHub (Apr 9, 2019).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/212

To get an maximum future-safe version of each saved page that has very limited dependencies on software to view it would be great if it could be saved as text as well (e.g. output.txt).

The best way I can think of doing this is actually to just run output.html through lynx or w3m. An output method that does something like "w3m -dump output.html > output.txt" would go a long way, but there might be some edge-cases I did not consider when I tested.

Originally created by @lifelike on GitHub (Apr 9, 2019). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/212 To get an maximum future-safe version of each saved page that has very limited dependencies on software to view it would be great if it could be saved as text as well (e.g. output.txt). The best way I can think of doing this is actually to just run output.html through lynx or w3m. An output method that does something like "w3m -dump output.html > output.txt" would go a long way, but there might be some edge-cases I did not consider when I tested.