Function to parse url contents?

[Steven <cureadvocate@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Emacs-w3m:

I want to write a function that reads a web page (Google Voice) and parses it 
to return the number of messages in my inbox.  I see w3m-retrieve and w3m-
browse-url, but neither of them will store the page contents in a variable to 
parse.

Should I maybe use with-temp-buffer instead?

Best,

Steven