No GUI? No Problem! How to Quickly Browse the Web in your Linux Terminal
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- There's no shortage of cool things you can do right from within your Linux terminal, but did you know you can browse web pages from the command line? While browsing web pages in your terminal won't look exactly the same as it does in a proper browser, it can be very useful in a pinch. In this video, Jay will show you two ways of browsing the interwebs from your Linux terminal.
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Time Codes
00:00 - Intro
00:44 - Check out Akamai's Connected Cloud (sponsor)
02:02 - Installing the links2 web browser
03:09 - Browsing the internet with links2
07:55 - Browsing the internet with w3m
11:45 - Viewing web pages (with graphics) in your terminal
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This is actually pretty amazing, and the use cases are unlimited, sometimes you only want to view text and not be distracted by the other garbage that is present on today's web.
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Will watch this one over the weekend but had to click to just come give our friend a like to show support. Have gained so much from this channel. Thanks for all the work you put in Jay!
Another great video! Thanks for posting this, I have just got back into Linux and will learn a lot from your content. Much appreciated.
When he first said "links2", I thought he was saying "Lynx 2". Lynx was the terminal web browser I was using 30 years ago. And is still available - at least on Mint.
@@binaryrealm01you do realise the web was invented in 1991 right
I used Lynx to download Firefox on the VisionFive 2 RISC-V SBC, because the early images didn't include Firefox and had to be downloaded separately.
Same. I visited my first web page using lynx. It was terrible. 😂
I remember Gopher at Univ of Minnesota.
@@binaryrealm01 does it really?
I am an old school gopher fan myself.
Wish we could bring it back. Less invasive, less fluff, less bandwidth needed, faster and easier to data scrape.
You might be interested in Gemini then 😊
I’ve wanted to do this for a while! Thanks for sharing!
so cool! love retro computing.
w3m -f (not sure if it was upper or lower case) is also worth mentioning. It allows to view the website with its frames in place which often improves the viewing experience ❤️ but important video.
Not to mention that this kind of browsers are one the safer: no download, no scripting, no ads, no popup bullshittery
I watch this CZcams-Video in my linux terminal 🤓
Impressive!
ytfzf? :)
What software do you use for that? mplayer?
@@Leo-sd3jtsearch Carbonyl web browser.
This was cool...Thanks for your linux education!
One nice thing about using eww in Emacs in terminal mode is that you get the ability to copy and paste text between buffers very easily. You also have the full searching and everything else that you would expect.
Of course I would see you here, nice bro :)
Thank you Jay for the great video. Just tried googler as well
Love it. Just have text is great. Thanks a lot
Such a nice little addition to an OpenBox or similar userland.
Very very helpful! 😊😊😊
You should really only use CLI browsers as a last resort due to privacy (cookies, fingerprinting, etc). Lynx allows you to reject cookies, but Links2 and w3m do not. So you should always definitely use a browser with privacy features for the modern web, or just avoid the web altogether ✌️
That's a good point.
Hmm.... I would think mixing up the browsers you use might mitigate fingerprinting. I mean I wouldn't do my banking on it. I wouldn't shop on it (not much point, with no images). I'm trying to think of what bad thing might happen with an old browser otherwise...
@@xpusostomos Simply switching between browsers has almost no effect on mitigating fingerprinting, bc your fingerprint comes mostly from your actual device, your software and hardware, all the way from high-level systems analysis like the operating system, down to very detailed data points like screen resolution, graphics and wifi cards, and even down to individual device drivers and codecs.
@@xpusostomos And as far as "what bad things might happen with an old browser", they're horrible for security. That's like basic 101 level knowledge.
@@liquidmobius I somehow doubt that a text based browser would report to the server about your graphics cards, screen resolution, etc etc. Why would it? It's not like it's going to be playing movies or laying out the screen based on it. OK, explain to me as someone lacking 101 knowledge the risks here.
Oh boy.. I remember browsing using Lynx back in the 90s.. I wouldn't figure it'd be useable these days...
The original software was called lynx, not links. and files were downloaded with gopher... and, of course, curses for terminal manipulation... Ah... the good old UNIX CLI days... ;-)
Us old-timers classed people as admins or "GUI admins", and challenged interviewees to add a user per CLI, or, just add a printer, to test their skillset and their ability to admin in a minimal environment (what if the GUI/Window system/desktop was the problem?)... or, your data center's KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switch was down, and you only had a VT100 terminal to plug in the console port (I said that I was an old-timer)?
I hadn't heard of Links2. I'm familiar with the original Links and the somewhat superior Lynx text-based browsers.
I haven't tried w3m yet, but now I wonder what other utilities might be useful for accessing the Web.
Great video!
Thanks!
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Thanks! This is useful. Is there a way to use gmail using these browsers or any terminal way
Very cool. I used to use the original :)
I installed w3m in Ubuntu 22.04 and Fedora 36 as the command shared by you ... the curious is that in Fedora never was possible load the Figures ... in Ubuntu zero problems.
Jay, This is pretty cool stuff. Thanks, I can make good use of these. How about text-based email clients?
I need a video on that!
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Mutahar/SOG mentioned Lynx in one of his videos. It's a great web browser.
Found some really good terminal Browser without compiling them to handle JavaScript.
This is the most Linux thing ever.
Seems like it would be good for wikipedia, especially if using satellite or radio internet with low bandwidth.
Will this bypass paywalls like news sites?
is ti possible to automate browsing on terminal?
Reminds me of my MS DOS 6 days :-)
DOS 3.3 here. 🙂
Like a dial up internet browsing for old time? Just add CRT Monitor to your set up and it's now retro enough.
That sounds like a fun idea
Better use a dumb terminal.😁
I can't keep up with your outstanding content
holy moly XD
That thing is insane haha
I prefer elinks. But lynx, links, links2, w3m and elinks are not enough for modern SPA
And now we can learn all the 800 useful and easy to remember multi key combinations.😁
you only need like 4
i love lynx browser
Works for me (links2).
This would be quite good from my dial-up connection.
Why dial up tho
Fedora 39 review ?
What about captcha into cli ?
Good ol' times when Europe's web usage was screened/top listed and punished within the company but I had telnet (really 'ol times) access to USA hosts...
Probably more mp3s and avis were wgetted there those days than ever before and after.
One thing is for certain: Geeks Are Us! 🤓 I can't wait to show this one off...
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I have some offbeat questions.
I actually like this, but I'm curious
How is destroying my history
I went to a Google search and it asked me to sign in. I'm glad it doesn't keep a record. But he talked about saving prior browsed history. How is that
Is this like brave that nothing is recorded on the net or is this without any security, non https
Can you pipe this information
Anything searched here, where is this record kept
I'm sure I would have plenty more questions but, if I wanted to do some recon is this good or not
Does anyone know how to navigate w3m inside a web page's search field, i.e. open white left bracket, red underscoring, close white right bracket? I like w3m's colors when "browsing" web pages but haven't figured out how to use it further than that. Searching a website is very important too. Meanwhile, links2 works fine for browsing *and* searching. Thanks.
By using tabs you should go through all the clickable items and editable items of the page.
You should use the arrow keys, to get before the item you want to use and then let it „snap on it“ with the TAB key
@@TheOnlyEpsilonAlpha I'll give it another go. On my initial attempt I couldn't figure how to enter the text I wanted to search for
Why not something a bit more modern like Carbonyl?
I browse the web with curl! I used to just telnet to port 80, but then we got encryption. :(
Well these ones are kinda needy stuff when the Internet is overbloated and everything you have is an old system which is not capable to screen this new because of scripts and other things that slow CPU
What if I don't have a GUI but want to install it?
Could i access my google account and contents
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lynx that is back from 2000'ish so what is new?
so this is like perfect ad blocker?
Why would they rebrand linode to Akamai cloud? Why not just call it Akamai linode?
It's a rebranding? I was sure there was some mixup in the ad. Still not clear.
We need this for our children after all what happened
Should show emacs browsing.
nice vid bro ....
sorry i just got here .....
Firsto... It's my elf name.
Similar to elink
Yeah, I prefer elinks since it's easier to configure and looks better (you can have the menu always be visible and stuff)
For years, I have been installing Linux distros from time to time and then uninstalling them. They ISO the systems that have bugs that even a blind person can see and upload them to the server. The testers, whose logic structure I am still trying to figure out, have not been able to solve this bug problem even though LTS versions and intermediate versions have been released and years later. They still continue to package the system with the same errors. If that tester was with me, I would beat him with a baseball bat asking how he couldn't see that problem for 5 years. In short, I've been giving Linux a chance for years, but now it's gone.
Who remembers gopher?
have you used any of the AI tools they are the shit!
lynx rules!
Jays hair looks weird 😊
reminds me of 1991
Same link when i downlod systemd64 on gentoo 😂
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continue....It says this
lynx fts
I tried watching this CZcams video in my Linux Terminal and it didn't work.
But why
This is the 69th comment
Pop-over?? 🤔
I’m referring to the pop over that interrupts your reading of articles
Is this a joke?
This is like 1990s
I'd argue that despite being a straight up downgrade, it has some use cases were it shines. Think of having
1) problems with graphics for some reason
2) a dev workflow based on Neovim/Vim + Tmux like I do, where it'd be way better to look up some documentation pages for Golang packages or a library repo on GH without having to leave my terminal or touch my mouse even once
3) to use your browser in "0-distractions mode" for a focused reading session
So yeah, I don't think it was meant to be a replacement for a full-featured web browser in the first place
The internet is the bigger joke:
- small bandwidths in too much regions on the planet, that region didn’t changed that much since the 1990s
- ad companies which claim they have the RIGHTS to stalk us(!) as best they can track everything we do and sell it to others and they get upset if we want to regulate them because it’s there business … a hitmans business is also to kill people but we still declare it illegal.
No, it's not. What if you wanna run a really lightweight OS using a terminal as a DE, and being able to use your keyboard/mouse, browse the web, having the ability to view images/graphics or run mouse based gui programs on terminal. All without needing a behemoth of a pc. Even RPi is probably overkill for all those.
No ads
no flash, etc
No distractions
quicker to learn stuff in.
@@raydall3734 True. It's also a basic way to use the interwebs while your computer is installing the rest of the OS. (gentoo old timer) xD
Don’t .
Dedicate a burner vm to do 100% of your browsing and downloading!
The ultimate in security is a VM that you revert to a clean snapshot after each use. Updates are applied to the clean image only. The only downside is that it's very expensive in terms of system resources.
but can i watch yt videos, Joe Biden
you could probably have it open the videos in mpv player
@@Xiefux ik its a joke as like Joe Biden is old enough he wouldn't know if he could or not
@ no clue what biden has anything to do with this video lol
no sorry, this is not what will make people use linux. human will take the tool that are made to function so they can get the things done immediately. and not the stuff that requires them to spend more resources and time to assemble before they get anything done. for once, i hope linux will start to become a well made tool for everyone. and no longer a tinkerer toy. maybe then we wil see the decrease in hacker population.
It's almost 2024, and you're still trying to do something from the terminal. Continue with this mentality. While people are thinking about how to make their life easier, how to have a better computer experience, you continue to deal with useless tasks, and then cry about why people don't prefer Linux. I know you put effort into this video, I'm sorry but I disliked your video.
That is the most robotic video I've seen in a while. Robotic and bland.
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