How do you access a web page's source with a script?

[alalusim]

Does anybody know of a way to access a web page's source and save it to a text file for manipulation by other scripts?

Keep in mind that I am relatively new to shell scripts.

Thanks in advance.

[duff]

# wget http://slashdot.org -O -
# links -source http://slashdot.org

[alalusim]

thanks a lot