let's call this 100 LOC mess not even quite an mvp yet

main.lua

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+local utf8 = require("utf8")
+local https=require('https')
+local htmlparser = require("htmlparser")
+
+local url='https://neocities.org'
+local textInput = ''
+
+function love.load()
+  -- Set up a Love2D font for displaying the text
+  font = love.graphics.newFont(24)
+  love.graphics.setFont(font)
+  love.graphics.setColor(1, 1, 1)
+
+  -- enable key repeat so backspace can be held down to trigger love.keypressed multiple times.
+  love.keyboard.setKeyRepeat(true)
+
+  grabText()
+  end
+
+function love.draw()
+  -- Draw the website's text on the Love2D window
+  love.graphics.setColor(1, 1, 1)
+  love.graphics.printf(screenText, 0, 40, love.graphics.getWidth(), "left")
+
+  drawInputBox()
+end
+
+function grabText()
+  rawHTML = makeRequest(url)
+  screenText = parseWebsite(rawHTML)
+end
+
+function parseWebsite(html)
+
+  local root = htmlparser.parse(html,1000) --1000 is the default
+  local head = root:select("h1") 
+  local out
+
+  if head[1] then
+  local headText = stripText(head[1]:getcontent()) or ""--first h1 on page
+  out = headText .. "\n"
+else 
+  out = ""
+end
+
+  local elements = root:select("p")
+
+  --local out = headText
+for _,e in ipairs(elements) do
+	out = out .. stripText(e:getcontent()) .. "\n"
+end
+
+  return out
+end
+
+function stripText(parsed)
+
+  stripped = parsed:gsub('%—','') --remove an html entity bothering me
+  stripped = stripped:gsub('%b<>', '') --remove tags
+  stripped = stripped:match'^%s*(.*)' --remove leading spaces
+
+  return stripped
+end
+
+function makeRequest(url)
+  local code, body, headers = https.request(url)
+  print('statusCode ', code)
+  --for index,value in pairs(headers) do
+  --    print("\t",index, value)
+  --end
+
+  return body
+end
+
+function love.textinput (text)
+    --if textbox.active then
+    --  textbox.text = textbox.text .. text
+    --end
+    textInput = textInput .. text
+end
+
+function love.keypressed(key)
+    if key == "backspace" then
+        -- get the byte offset to the last UTF-8 character in the string.
+        local byteoffset = utf8.offset(textInput, -1)
+
+        if byteoffset then
+            -- remove the last UTF-8 character.
+            -- string.sub operates on bytes rather than UTF-8 characters, so we couldn't do string.sub(text, 1, -2).
+            textInput = string.sub(textInput, 1, byteoffset - 1)
+        end
+    end
+
+    if key == 'return' then
+      url=textInput --obviously need to add in validation later
+      grabText()
+    end
+end
+
+function drawInputBox()
+  --empty input box
+ love.graphics.rectangle('fill', 5,0, love.graphics.getWidth(),40)
+
+ --text input starter
+  love.graphics.setColor(0, 0, 0)
+  love.graphics.print("$ "..textInput, 10, 10)
+end