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Lynx is a cross platform, GPL licensed, text-mode web browser.

Lynx is a text-mode web browser. It renders the documents in a linearized manner which makes its output suitable for text-to-speech input and closer to what the web bots are seeing.

Lynx handles Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP. It renders most of the HTML elements in simplified but accessible ways (for example frame as link to its src, img as alt text or link to its src).

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Open HTML attachments externally in Mutt

I recently managed to set up my mailcap so that Mutt can show HTML e-mails in the message window: # ~/.mailcap text/html; lynx -dump '%s' | more; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput; which is automated by: # ~/.muttrc auto_view text/html Although…
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What is the official website for the lynx, text based webbrowser?

The: http://lynx.isc.org/ is not loading. Is it the https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ what is the official for the "lynx", the text-based webbrowser?
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How to pipe html into lynx?

I am testing some ajax call from the console. I like get rid of the meta-information noise that is html markup and just read the content, hence I like to pipe it into a terminal browser, e.g. lynx. Yet: curl www.google.de | lynx just opens a new…
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Console browser for Centos 8

What console browser work under Centos 8? I tried to install them all but sudo yum -y install lynx w3m links elinks links2 netrik No match for argument: lynx No match for argument: w3m No match for argument: links No match for argument: elinks No…
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Converting html table into ncurses-like ascii table?

I have some documentation in an html table. I want to convert the table to an ascii table, like you see when you get a mysql command line result back, like this: +------------+------------+ | header | header | +------------+------------+ |…
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Get page in curl as text

Is there any option for curl that saves a page as text? I mean, in the same way a page can be saved in browser as Text Files. At least, Firefox has that option. I need it for a script, I simply do something like curl -s http://... But it would…
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Customize Lynx's filetype behavior

I love lynx. I love browsing without tabs. Call me a luddite, but I only use a modern browser if I have to. Which is about twice a day, for a few minutes at most. There's one thing I really really hate about lynx, though. It's not immediately…
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Running cron script with lynx fails to work

I'm trying to automate a login process that can only be done through a browser. I am using the lynx browser to script the actions required to do this. Lynx does this by dumping a user's keystrokes into a file and then it allows a flag:…
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Lynx is trying to unzip my downloads

I am having a problem with the Lynx text browser. When I try to download a some tar.gz files, Lynx is not downloading it. It is putting it in a tmp directory and then trying to unpack it with the command: /bin/tar tvf - It does not always do this.…
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Change default web browser to lynx from terminal

I'm on Linux Mint Olivia. I just installed Lynx. How do I set Lynx as my browser, so when I open links from the terminal, they open in that terminal with Lynx?
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Using URLs with parenthesis with Lynx

I often use Lynx on a remote computer to look at websites (faster than port-forwarding). Sometimes the URLs I want to go to have un-escaped characters (for example brackets) that Lynx seems to need encoded. for example…
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How do I build Lynx with SSL on Mac OS X?

I'd like to build and install Lynx on Mac OS X. I've found out that building is as simple as running ./configure, but I'm having trouble building with SSL support. I've downloaded openSSL. How do I include it in my build?
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How to turn off the help menu in Lynx

I have a really small space reserved to Lynx for a quick lookup, as I need that often. However, the "Help" menu takes a lot of space and I don't really need it now. The red oval is what I want to get rid of. How to do it?
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Force lynx or elinks to interpret spaces and line breaks

Consider the following commands, and their results : $ echo "

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"|lynx -dump -stdin a b c $ echo "

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"|elinks -dump a b c Neither prints the correct number…
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Do any text-based web browsers support unicode box-drawing characters?

I have some html like this: ┌──────── ────────┐
│testtesttesttest│
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