HTML-FormatExternal lets you turn HTML into plain text using one of
the browsing/formatting programs,

    elinks        www/elinks
    html2text     textproc/html2text
    links         www/links
    lynx          www/lynx
    netrik        www/netrik
    w3m           www/w3m

WWW: https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-FormatExternal