Browsh: The modern text-based web browser

[joouha]

I wrote an HTML renderer [0] as part of euporie [1], which I'm planning on eventually spinning into a new terminal browser (but it needs a bit more work first).

There's no JS support, but a good chunk of CSS is implemented, and images are displayed using terminal graphics if your terminal supports it.

You can try it out by passing a URL to `euporie-notebook`.

[1] https://github.com/joouha/euporie/blob/dev/euporie/core/ft/h...

[0] https://github.com/joouha/euporie

[aumerle]

And a full browser runnning in the terminal: https://github.com/chase/awrit

[xerxesaa]

Though I realize it's currently offline, can I just say how refreshing it is to see the mention of a live ssh demo with no authentication needed? I wish more tools had such a friction free way to try them.

[asicsp]

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

[1vuio0pswjnm7]

He lists a number of other text-only browsers but omits the best one, IMHO. Strange coincidence.

[focom]

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

[poulpy123]

I'm a bit surprised by the use of firefox, but it's great to see web tools not based on chrome

[voidz]

Neat! Very handy for looking up issues remotely. It has a dependency on firefox, but on systems that have Nix, that shouldn't be too much of a problem.

[sharperguy]

it seems to have firefox as a dependency

[hopw_roewur_ne]

Yes, the page is rendered remotely in Firefox and turned into text transmitted over SSH.

[tombh]

Also see: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl

[nerder92]

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

[tombh]

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.

[nsonha]

brow the web from a dumb terminal?

[adamdegas]

Battery life

[polunom]

Been following this project for a bit, super cool

[oehpr]

I love this stupid thing