Getting webpage contents using a script

[picking4321]

I wanna write a script to get the contents of a simple webpage like
http://www.craigslist. org/msg
i need just text output not html.
I search this on google. There are suggestions about using perl LWP::Simple
and using lynx. Both these options are not workable for me because
lynx config files are missing on my system and perl package is not
found on my system or cpan.org

Pls let me know if you know of any other simple method to do this
using perl/python or whatever else.

Thanks

[micmast]

take a look at wget. I don't know if the program can fetch only text, but you might be able to write a small html filter for that.