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Created January 19, 2016 03:24
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Get text as text file from url - js - anchor method
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index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>text getter</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h3>click the button to get text file in both json and text format</h3>
<p>url : http://it.emich.edu/bannerfiles/sctnenrl_wi.txt</p>
<a onclick="http://it.emich.edu/bannerfiles/sctnenrl_wi.txt='data:text;charset=utf-8,'+encodeuricomponent(document.documentelement.outerhtml)" href="http://it.emich.edu/bannerfiles/sctnenrl_wi.txt" download="page.txt">download</a>
</body>
</html>
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