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Questions tagged [lynx]

For questions about the CLI web browser 'lynx'. While it is not as fully featured as most modern graphical browsers, it facilitates browsing the web without a GUI.

lynx is a CLI web browser. While it is not as fully featured as most modern graphical browsers, it facilitates browsing the web without a GUI.

To install it, run:

sudo apt-get install lynx

To open <URL> in lynx, run:

lynx <URL>

For example, to try viewing this page in lynx:

lynx http://askubuntu.com/tags/lynx/info

For more information see lynx on Wikipedia and man lynx.

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SSL/TLS error with links and lynx - possibly due to CloudFlare

I often work in the terminal - for example on a VPS I've set up - including for browsing with links and lynx. Unfortunately I've been getting some errors: links: Error loading https://www.thepiratebay.se/: SSL error lynx: Looking up…
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Command line web browser using SSH, is there any way i can use

I am connected using SSH to a Ubuntu Box which is behind firewall and routers. From that Ubuntu box i need to open a router web page and login to the router for doing some changes. How can i from command line open a web-browser which can allow me to…
user25165
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Can't load some domain

I can't load some domain on my ubuntu 13.04: youtube.com translate.google.com drive.google.com vk.com When I ping them they are responding: PING youtube.com (217.119.79.59) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from non-registered.plix.pl…
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How to write scripts for w3m or lynx?

How can I navigate (using TAB or hjkl keys) and click on things(ENTER), enter text with bash script in text based browsers like w3m and lynx? I said text based because when I go graphical, those browsers are going to shred my ram after a long…
savolla
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Open URL from Bash script

I have a text file Google.com Youtube.com Gmail.com Yahoo.com I am trying to open them with Lynx. Here is the thesis. I will store all of those links at a txt file, say links.txt and then I need to open them with Lynx and then terminate Lynx by…
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Wikipedia viewer for tty

I'm wondering if there is any command to fetch the "introduction" (and perhaps the full article) of a Wikipedia entry on a terminal. I found this article and a lot of article redirecting to it, but unfortunately when running this in the console it…
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C++ system() function for further arguments in ubuntu

I didn't really know how to even look for the solution for this one. My problem is, how to execute system commands in c++ using function system(); but for more arguments(Come on it sounds awful). Let me explain: Try for example to type something…
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Question about lynx text browser

When I go to visit this url https://github.com/search?q=jquery+stars%3A>10+forks%3A<10&type=Repositories using this command for lynx: lynx -accept_all_cookies https://github.com/search?q=jquery+stars%3A>10+forks%3A<10&type=Repositories First I…
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how to download a link in links using axel/curl?

shortly, how can I make lynx/links use axel/curl for downloading files that i want to store in my hard-disk?? Longley: I'm a server-manager and always used my ubuntu system and putty so i could copy/paste url with mouse and + :D but now I don't…
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Does using terminal-based text browsers provide significant improvements in browsing speed?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I know two methods to access the web-pages through terminal. They are lynx and elinks. When I tried to use them to access web-pages from terminal, I didn't seem to get any improvements on browsing speed. I am not sure…
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How can I use lynx --cmd_script to position the cursor on an input field?

Lynx provides simple keystroke recording/scripting with -cmd_log and -cmd_script. The man page doesn't provide much detail on the behavior of these arguments, and what it does describe makes certain behavior somewhat baffling: I would like to create…
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How to output commands when running lynx from bash script?

I have a bash script that executes a web-based php script using lynx, then the browser stays active allowing the user to input commands. I would like to automate quitting lynx and continuing with the rest of the script. In the script I have: lynx…
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compile lynx browser with ssl

cannot get compiled lynx to work with https. ./configure --with-ssl --with-gnutls --with-gnutls-openssl make sudo make install compile reports (in part): checking if you want ssl library... yes checking if you want gnutls support... yes checking if…
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what is the alternative browser for lynx?

I have a script including JavaScript,when i run that in terminal,it says JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser to utilize the functionality of this website. And it asks for…
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Lynx stops downloading file b/c no space is left on device

I'm working on an EC2 instance running Ubuntu 14.04 64bit and I want to download a file using Lynx. The file I want is downloaded from web-site that I have to authenticate on - which is why I decided to use lynx. Which happens to work for files of a…
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