Lynx read from file

Question

I am using using lynx to extract text information from some html file. but I am getting how I can use lynx to read from the file ?

I tried lynx -dump file::///home/vivek/html.txt then I got Alert!: Unsupported URL scheme!

how can I tell lynx to read from the file ?

Answer 1

You've got one too many colon in your URI. Try lynx -dump file:///home/vivek/html.txt