Years ago, early on in my perl-cgi $job, I learned about the
existence of something called wget.  From distant memory, you
did something like:

$ wget http://something

and you got a text dump of something.html.

Does it work with gopher?

RTFM.  (Five seconds of reading man wget).

Looks like you just give it a URL as first argument.

Let's try it.  Hmm, what is my gopher URL?

Using my iPad and Charles Childer's Gopher Client, I navigate
to my Gear post and up in the address bar it says:

sdf.org:70/0/users/bobgee/Phlog/2020-08-01#040Gear

So I go:

$ wget gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/bobgee/Phlog/2020-08-01#040Gear

Answer:

gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/bobgee/Phlog/2020-08-01#040Gear:
Unsupported scheme 'gopher'.

Wtf???  "Unsupported"???  Can this be???  Ask Professor
Internet.

Bing search box (I use Bing because I like the pictures): Does
wget support gopher?

Short answer:  No.

Well PFUI!!!!!!!

What about curl?

To be continued...