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Python Tool to Extract and Analyze Web Page Text in Seconds

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Ever find yourself manually copying text from multiple web pages to analyze content, only to get frustrated by inconsistent formatting and missing data? I've been there too. As a developer, I often need to quickly extract text from web pages for tasks like content scraping, SEO analysis, or even just to get a quick sense of what a page is about. The manual process is slow and error-prone.

So, I built a small Python script that automates this process. It fetches a web page, extracts the text content (ignoring HTML tags), and then provides a quick analysis like word count and average word length. The whole thing takes seconds and requires no extra setup beyond a few lines of code.

Here's how it works:

First, we need to install the necessary packages.…

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