VS 2010 Extracting main body text from webpage

Hi all,

I am trying to download various texts from different news sources in a systematic way. I know I can use get element by id/tag but it would be quite tedious to make one for each of the 100+ sources. Is there a way to use webclient or webbrowser to extract the main content without the html formatting?

e.g. wclient.downloadMainBodyText?? A bit like the content that shows up when an iPad/iPhone uses the Reader function in safari.

Thanks in advance.