Extracting Inner text from HTML BODY node with Html Agility Pack

Question

Need a bit of help with HTML Agility Pack!

Basically I want to grab plain-text withing the body node of the HTML. So far I have tried this in vb.ne

Answer 1

Jeff's solution is ok if you haven't tables, because text located in the table is sticking like cell1cell2cell3. To prevent this issue use this code (C# example):

var words = doc.DocumentNode?.SelectNodes("//body//text()")?.Select(x => x.InnerText);
return words != null ? string.Join(" ", words) : String.Empty;

Answer 2

How about:

Return htmldoc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//body").InnerText