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Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by cJ0th »

rotorblade wrote: post #246
cJ0th wrote: post #219

that's pretty awesome. Anyone here knows how I could install this in termux on my android?

I tried it this morning (lineageOS). Got the arm binary from github, `chmod +x`-ed it on my computer and scp:ed it over to my phone. Ran the binary and got a quick flash of the screen and a `exit status 1`. Have not looked into it more than that. Since `browsh` depends on headless firefox, which is not in the termux default repository (it seems), I guess it won't work because termux does not have access to the firefo…

thanks for the details. they saved me some troubles. too bad it (apparently) doesn't work. At least they do have good 'ol lynx in their repository :)

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by tombh »

jacquesm wrote: post #243
tombh wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The bitcoin one! Woaah, thank you so much :)

No, thank you . That must have been a very long and hard slog to get this to work as well as it does and unfortunately this is the only way that I have to show my appreciation of that. (Been there, done that.)

Ha, you're the first person to mention that. It's probably one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, both technically and in terms of stamina. So I very much appreciate that someone else can understand that.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by scbrg »

Suggestion: Make the Debian depend on firefox | firefox-esr. Currently, it's not possible to install on Debian stable due to that distribution not shipping a package named firefox, only one called firefox-esr.

[edit]: Ah, I notice now that the firefox in stable is too old anyway. Oh, well, never mind then :-)

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by se7entime »

tombh wrote: post #2

Some of you may have seen this before under its previous incarnation of "Texttop". Then it was just a hack, but I got some great feedback, so I've spent most of the last 12 months turning it into something serious. It's morphed into more than a mere TTY gimmick. That UNIX philosophy of text being the "universal interface" has somewhat unexpectedly risen to the forefront, such that Browsh is now essentially a text bro…

Will you put it in Flatpak or Snap?

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by annabellish »

tombh wrote: post #165
monch1962 wrote: post #79

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I could see this being part of a lightweight browser UI testing framework. There's already ways to drive a headless UI (Selenium, puppeteer), but they require automation testers to interact with page elements via the "normal" DOM which can be quite painful in terms of creating automation tests - DSLs to drive DOM automation are necessarily huge. I could envision browser automation via browsh using a very small DSL e.…

I've thought of that too. The trouble is that Browsh's text renderer is more of a science than an art. It's quite hard to actually get a guarantee of the same text twice, which is a pretty important condition of testing. But yes, I'd love for Browsh to be used in such a way!

As an anecdote, somebody at my workplace has just spent a day tearing their hair out trying to figure out how to get our selenium tests running automatically on a headless machine, because the resolution flat refused to go above 1024x768. Even then, they're slow and heavyweight.

A very fast browser not tied to a graphical display with the bonus of being able to put error screenshots into all of our existing tooling could actually be quite beneficial here, whether the text is character-identical every time or not.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by snarfy »

tombh wrote: post #2

Some of you may have seen this before under its previous incarnation of "Texttop". Then it was just a hack, but I got some great feedback, so I've spent most of the last 12 months turning it into something serious. It's morphed into more than a mere TTY gimmick. That UNIX philosophy of text being the "universal interface" has somewhat unexpectedly risen to the forefront, such that Browsh is now essentially a text bro…

Run it as a service. I send in a URL and maybe TERM type, you send back the rendering complete with escape sequences etc.

You might not see the need for this, but others will. I could see it being used in some back end workflow.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by michaelmior »

annabellish wrote: post #256
tombh wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've thought of that too. The trouble is that Browsh's text renderer is more of a science than an art. It's quite hard to actually get a guarantee of the same text twice, which is a pretty important condition of testing. But yes, I'd love for Browsh to be used in such a way!

As an anecdote, somebody at my workplace has just spent a day tearing their hair out trying to figure out how to get our selenium tests running automatically on a headless machine, because the resolution flat refused to go above 1024x768. Even then, they're slow and heavyweight. A very fast browser not tied to a graphical display with the bonus of being able to put error screenshots into all of our existing tooling c…

Since browsh requires Firefox so I'm not sure you'd really get much of a speed benefit over Selenium
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