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Re: Browsh: The modern text-based web browser

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Post by tombh »

nerder92 wrote: post #18

Can people share some use-case for this kind of tools?

From the README:

    If you only have a 3kbps internet connection tethered from a phone, then it's good to SSH into a server and browse the web through, say, elinks. That way the server downloads the web pages and uses the limited bandwidth of an SSH connection to display the result. However, traditional text-based browsers lack JS and all other modern HTML5 support. Browsh is different in that it's backed by a real browser, namely headless Firefox, to create a purely text-based version of web pages and web apps. These can be easily rendered in a terminal or indeed, ironically, in another browser. Do note that currently the browser client doesn't have feature parity with the terminal client.

Re: Browsh: The modern text-based web browser

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Post by mixmastamyk »

montroser wrote: post #17
meinheld111 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cute and sexy but I can’t help but wonder whether it misses the point

Are you projecting? The point is to be able to use the modern web in all of its spectacular complexity, from within a text-based terminal. Which goal it actually achieves!

It's neat yes. But prevents it being used on a headless server without graphics installed. That's primarily where I'd use a text browser... need to download a package/archive but also need to search for it first.

If I have firefox installed, I'd just use it!

Re: Browsh: The modern text-based web browser

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Post by gitinit »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #33
montroser wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you projecting? The point is to be able to use the modern web in all of its spectacular complexity, from within a text-based terminal. Which goal it actually achieves!

It's neat yes. But prevents it being used on a headless server without graphics installed. That's primarily where I'd use a text browser... need to download a package/archive but also need to search for it first. If I have firefox installed, I'd just use it!

This can, however, be run entirely inside of Docker - something I’ve done numerous times on a remote sever. This even allows for the web interface to be used, though that kind of defeats the purpose.

Re: Browsh: The modern text-based web browser

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Post by systems »

svieira wrote: post #21
systems wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and it doesnt show the project language(s), the first thing i do when checking a repo on github is to check the languages used, and usually this help me decided whether or not i want to follow this project or not ocaml, f#, clojure, zig, raku, array language --> insta follow rust, smalltalk , lisp/scheme --> 50-50 python --> boooo , not gonna follow

`.nim` if we go by the last commit.

the nimrod programming language

Re: Browsh: The modern text-based web browser

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

focom wrote: post #14
asicsp wrote: post #11

See also: https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/ - a web browser for your terminal

sr.ht is such a pain to browse, why would someone pick this over GitHub.

Looks fine in the text-only browser I use. Easy to browse. Here are some sample URLs

https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/tree/master/item/.gitignore

https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/tree/master/item/.gitmodule...

https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/tree/master/item/Makefile

https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/tree/master/item/README.md

To view raw substitute blob for tree

https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/blob/master/README.md

Actually Github has become recently more difficult to browse with the text-only browser I use. They keep messing with the HTML and breaking this simple structure.

I just download the .zip files and browse offline.

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