I can get all code of page with Puppeteer, but how I can get only the plain text? without tags?

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

(async() => {
  const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
  const page = await browser.newPage();
  await page.goto('');
  console.log(await page.content()); //Get all code
  await browser.close();
})();

I can get all code of page with Puppeteer, but how I can get only the plain text? without tags?

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

(async() => {
  const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
  const page = await browser.newPage();
  await page.goto('https://google.');
  console.log(await page.content()); //Get all code
  await browser.close();
})();

• javascript
• puppeteer

2 Answers 2

I haven't tried it, but $eval might work for you:

await page.$eval('*', el => el.innerText);

guys. I've gathered few possible variants in my article: How to get all text from a webpage using Puppeteer?

To keep things short:

1. innerText variant. Works with most webpages, but not all of them

await page.$eval('*', el => el.innerText);

2. Select text variant. Works with more webpages

await page.$eval('*', (el) => {
        const selection = window.getSelection();
        const range = document.createRange();
        range.selectNode(el);
        selection.removeAllRanges();
        selection.addRange(range);
        return window.getSelection().toString();
    });

3. Use a third-party library of your choice (like html-to-text)