#!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys, re import urllib.request if '-h' in sys.argv or len(sys.argv) < 2: print('./url_read.py op webpage_URL') print() print('reads the HTML of a webpage') print() print('options: -s = strip HTML tags') sys.exit() if 'http' not in sys.argv[-1]: req='https://'+sys.argv[-1] else: req=sys.argv[-1] response=urllib.request.urlopen(req) lines=response.read().decode('utf8') for line in lines.split('\n'): if sys.argv[1] == '-s': print(re.sub('<.*?>','',line)) else: print(line)