HTML2TEXT

this utility converts and HTML output to a nice readable format

root@oco:~$ sudo apt search html2text
 html2text/parrot6 1.3.2a-28 amd64
  advanced HTML to text converter
  
root@oco:~$ sudo apt install html2text
 ...

root@oco:~$ curl -s -X GET http://blog.inlanefreight.com/wp-content/plugins/mail-masta/ | html2text

 ****** Index of /wp-content/plugins/mail-masta ******
 [[ICO]]       Name                 Last_modified    Size Description
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 [[PARENTDIR]] Parent_Directory                         -  
 [[DIR]]       amazon_api/          2020-05-13 18:01    -  
 [[DIR]]       inc/                 2020-05-13 18:01    -  
 [[DIR]]       lib/                 2020-05-13 18:01    -  
 [[   ]]       plugin-interface.php 2020-05-13 18:01  88K  
 [[TXT]]       readme.txt           2020-05-13 18:01 2.2K  
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