Web pages are HTML pages that contain a collection of HTML tags, along with other elements, such as JavaScript and CSS. Of these, the HTML tags define the content of a web page, which we can parse to look for a specific content, and this is something Bash scripting can help us with. When we download a web page, we receive an HTML file, and in order to view the formatted page, it should be viewed in a web browser.
In most of the circumstances, parsing a text document will be easier than parsing HTML data because we aren't required to strip off the HTML tags. Lynx is an interesting command-line web browser, which can get the web page as plaintext. Let us see how to do it.