browsh

If you want to live only in the terminal, you can also use one of the text-based browsers [1] instead of Chrome, Firefox, etc. browsh [2] can also play YouTube videos if you'd like. You can also just use the system console with tmux or GNU screen if you absolutely don't want any graphics at all. The TUI programs usually do not consume a lot of resources. They are also very fast and optimized for keyboard-only navigation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_web_browser [2] https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh

I don't think any of these text-based web browsers are actively maintained; "Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser" (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487552 browsh-org/browsh: A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh "Forking Chrome to render in a terminal" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34547259 fathyb/carbonyl: Chromium running inside your terminal https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl chawan: TUI Web Browser https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/ Ladybird browser may be easier to build a TUI terminal user interface for than other brothers because of Lagom FWIU (LibWeb and LibJs are already decoupled from the UI and rendering)

I think the project itself is really cool, that said I really don't like the trend of having LLMs regurgitate content back to us. That said, this kinda makes me think of Browsh, who took the opposite approach and tries to render the HTML in the terminal (without LLMs as far as I know) https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZq86XfBoRo

There is browsh, which uses Firefox underneath: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh And looks like Carbonyl uses Chrome: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl

There are also options like Carbonyl[1] and Browsh[2] which do images and js in the terminal. 1: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl 2: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh

> If you are using a JS based browser, you don't deserve security in first place. In some cases, that is true, but not all, and I suggest not even most. In many cases, I think people are just as culpable for being unwilling to use Whonix. > If I had time I could set up a tutorial not to use SSH as a proxy, but as a client to a remote VPS/tilde to use the offpunk client there to browse web/gemini and gopher sites anonymously. https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh can be pretty decent, too. Aside, it's a shame that it's not common practice to provide resource gleanings in the form of such access to random others from one's VPS. An easily reproduced NixOS environment in VM with locked down containers proxying through a local tor instance(s) would scale up alright and significantly limit risks for the donor. I find very few people take up the

A full terminal web browser is a bit more than I was looking for, but this is definitely an option. Was thinking more something I could pipe text into to get an extraction and/or a simpler pager interface. The browsh repo front page is just insanely impressive[0]. `links` is impossible to query the web for the project, so if you had more guidance on that one, it would be appreciated. [0] https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh Edit: Noted I was querying for something more feature anemic, plus Browsh link

I need a font (or some other method) to display the UTF8 Full Block for all characters, including CJK. Does anybody know of anything? It's for rendering in Browsh, a text-based web browser: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/75

I'm kinda hoping he changes his mind on this one: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/270 IMO the gains w/ chafa are pretty enormous. I find it enormously helpful with w3m where it is my default image handler these days.

There is a browser for the terminal: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh

TUIs are very pretty and very convenient. Unfortunately rendering to the Terminal is...slow. See https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh. Honestly I wonder if there is a way to speed it up. Like a new terminal mode which lets you write or color a particular row/column directly, or utilizes the GPU to render to each pixel, or really anything better than literally printing text with fancy spacing, escapes, etc. on each refresh. Until then, anything which is render-intensive you're much better using a GUI, even if it's just a shell script which opens a window while it's running.