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Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#2
This looks like my type of browser. I currently rely heavily on the vimium chrome extension.

Does this support profiles by any chance? I currently use chrome profiles to separate work and personal

Looking forward to giving it a spin

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#5
You know what would be cool, if you could use unix cli tools in the browser. Press control+, a small console box shows up and run:

|grep ...|awk ...

And the text of the document gets processed. But if you want to mess with the dom you could:

Html.Body | sed ... | jq ...

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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post #5

You know what would be cool, if you could use unix cli tools in the browser. Press control+ , a small console box shows up and run: |grep ...|awk ... And the text of the document gets processed. But if you want to mess with the dom you could: Html.Body | sed ... | jq ...

This probably wouldn't be possible due to browser sandboxing.

You could however, use a tool like External Application Button [0] in order to send the URL of the page to a script/program, which in turn can make the body of the page parsable by downloading the URL it gets, automating some action on it. I use it pretty often to automate downloads with yt-dlp or opening a picture directly in GIMP from the browser, but since you're invoking a bash/python/whatever script, the possibilities are basically endless.

[0]: https://github.com/andy-portmen/external-application-button

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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post #5

You know what would be cool, if you could use unix cli tools in the browser. Press control+ , a small console box shows up and run: |grep ...|awk ... And the text of the document gets processed. But if you want to mess with the dom you could: Html.Body | sed ... | jq ...

This probably wouldn't be possible due to browser sandboxing. You could however, use a tool like External Application Button [0] in order to send the URL of the page to a script/program, which in turn can make the body of the page parsable by downloading the URL it gets, automating some action on it. I use it pretty often to automate downloads with yt-dlp or opening a picture directly in GIMP from the browser, but si…

> You could however, use a tool like External Application Button [0] in order to send the URL of the page to a script/program, which in turn can make the body of the page parsable by downloading the URL it gets, automating some action on it.

This works less well than it used to now that CMSs and blogs are now SPAs that render no text without javascript being enabled.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#9
post #5

You know what would be cool, if you could use unix cli tools in the browser. Press control+ , a small console box shows up and run: |grep ...|awk ... And the text of the document gets processed. But if you want to mess with the dom you could: Html.Body | sed ... | jq ...

This probably wouldn't be possible due to browser sandboxing. You could however, use a tool like External Application Button [0] in order to send the URL of the page to a script/program, which in turn can make the body of the page parsable by downloading the URL it gets, automating some action on it. I use it pretty often to automate downloads with yt-dlp or opening a picture directly in GIMP from the browser, but si…

I was thinking of running gnu binaries like that as a WASM compiled app/pwa

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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post #2

This looks like my type of browser. I currently rely heavily on the vimium chrome extension. Does this support profiles by any chance? I currently use chrome profiles to separate work and personal Looking forward to giving it a spin

you should also checkout https://qutebrowser.org/ which is pretty mature.
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