Comments on: 9 Command Line Tools for Browsing Websites and Downloading Files in Linux

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 05:21:50 +0000

In reply to yannis.

@Yannis,

I have added the Browsh text browser to the list as suggested by you. About wget and curl, we already covered in part 2 of this article here – https://www.tecmint.com/linux-command-line-tools-for-downloading-files/

By: yannis

yannis — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 21:23:28 +0000

Browsh is one more terminal browser that is able to display images and videos (poor ASCII quality). Also, wget and curl for downloading files.

By: jake

jake — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 14:05:26 +0000

links2 is wonderful for simpler webpages in GUI mode. RAM usage is practically zilch and it handles some JS to boot. Was playing around with it for about 1/2 an hour just now. You can get some decent color (text, link, background) combos too and it does local file navigation very nicely (input url: "file://") between, was looking for a simple terminal-based markdown viewer and came across 'Terminal Markdown Viewer' (mdv at github). It's one of the few that's python-based (pip install) and does a really nice job rendering MD locally. I suppose this makes it a subClass of the more able full-fledged browsers. Lynx works well too because it at least colorizes certain tags - so the output looks nice:

pandoc filename.md | lynx -stdin

Also... finding that w3m does MD locally pretty well via pandoc, though the output is blander but the html support is actually stronger than I expected:

pandoc filename.md | w3m -T text/html

Anyway, thought I'd share a specific use-case.

By: kevin

kevin — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 14:16:02 +0000

In reply to Shany Abady.

Could you use screen? Might work for some aspects, of this scenario…..

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:41:53 +0000

I love the way that the different tools are showcased in the text itself. Thank you for making such a well designed site