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python download html as text

import requests

url = "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24297257/save-html-of-some-website-in-a-txt-file-with-python"

r = requests.get(url)
with open('file.txt', 'w') as file:
    file.write(r.text)

python download html as text

import urllib.request    
urllib.request.urlretrieve("http://www.example.com/test.html", "test.txt")