converting a website to text online?

[your_twin]

Is there a way to convert a website into text? Into a string variable that can be searched for specific words and characters?

[Charles]

It's easily done but I wouldn't convert the HTML to text so much as I would run the thing through some HTML Parser. What are you up to exactly and in full?

[your_twin]

I am trying to make an internal site search engine that will search through the text of all the different pages that I create and to extract the first few characters of pertinent articles and display them, with links to the actual article or page, in a table.

[Stephen Philbin]

You don't have your site content stored in a database? It'd be much easier to do it the usual database way and let it do its job.

[ray326]

I'd recommend you look at Lucene.