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Lynx is a cross platform, GPL licensed, text-mode web browser which is also used as HTML interpreter in shell scripts e.g. as part of web crawlers.

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

Handles Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP protocols. Renders most of the HTML elements in simplified but accessible ways (ex. frame as link to its src, img as alt text or link to its src).

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Elinks or Lynx?

Please, state your reasons for your terminal browser. Why are you using Lynx or Elinks? How do they help you in programming?
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Lynx with JavaScript

So I wrote a script in PHP that requires JavaScript to run with it. I've had a hard time finding the solution on how to run the JavaScript with PHP at the same time using some Linux tool to make it automatic (since running it in my browser isn't a…
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Is wget or similar programs always available on POSIX systems?

Is there an HTTP client like wget/lynx/GET that is distributed by default in POSIX or *nix operating systems that could be used for maximum portability? I know most systems have wget or lynx installed, but I seem to remember installing some Ubuntu…
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How can I copy a link URL in either lynx or links to copy to vim?

I am having the most difficult time trying to figure out how to copy a link URL in either of these two browsers and then paste it into vim. Does anyone know how to go about doing this? I am using Slackware 13.1. Any alternatives to copy/paste are…
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lynx dump -- use color?

I just tried... lynx -dump -list_inline "http://www.samplepage.com" to get a formatted output of a web page. However, I noticed that for links, only the starting point is marked but not the end point. For instance, for something like this this is…
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Lynx UTF-8 support

I am using Lynx on OS X 10.11. However, it does not print UTF-8 for non-ASCII characters, but rather either an ASCII representation of them, or the ef bf bd "replacement" character (?). I have been studying this guide for help. The output from the…
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Display HTML element only in text browsers?

I have a layout that looks well in normal browsers, but in links and lynx is looks like a large jumble of text. I'd like to add a
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between sections in the text browsers, but I don't want them to interfere with the CSS layout in normal…
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Lynx: how to use -auth flag when username contains domain?

I have a problem with Lynx. I'm trying to log in on a web page using the -auth flag. The line I use is lynx -accept_all_cookies -auth=mydomain\myuser:mypass http://ultracooldomain.com/default.aspx This does not seem to work. What am I doing wrong…
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Where does Lynx broswer download files?

I am using Lynx command line browser on Ubuntu. I have a Generate Report button on my web page which when clicked, would download an Excel report from my Rails application. I am not able to find where the downloaded files go. Please help! Where do…
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How do I set proxy for lynx

I am trying to run lynx in my perl cgi script so it extracts some text from wen page. I am doing it as in the following manner in my script, lynx -source -preparsed "$url" > data.txt But I get the following error in my server's error_log: Looking…
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How to remove numbering from "lynx --dump -listonly"

$ lynx --dump -listonly index.html Example result: References Visible links 1. http://lynx.invisible-island.net/ 2. http://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx.html 3. http://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/index.html What I want to do is remove the…
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How can I hide a div when my webpage is viewed in Lynx?

My website has a div element (in form of a block) that I want to make invisible whenever a user visits the website through a text based browser like Lynx, that doesn't support JavaScript. Basically what command or code do I need to write in order…
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Which CPAN module would you recommend for turning HTML into plain text?

Which CPAN module would you recommend for turning HTML into formatted plain text? One strict requirement is that the module must handle Unicode characters.
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Where does Lynx store its cookies?

I was wondering where does lynx the text based web browser stores its cookies. Having a look at the manual there are options on how to enable cookies, etc. but couldn't find a way to have lynx delete the stored cookies. Therefore I might have to…
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Java HTML normalizer?

IS there a library which can transform any given HTML page with JS, CSS all over it, into a minimalistic uniform format? For instance, if we render stackoverflow homepage, I want it to be shown in a minimal format. I want all other sites to be…
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