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Browsh: The modern text-based web browser
- xerxesaa 3y agoThough I realize it's currently offline, can I just say how refreshing it is to see the mention of a live ssh demo with no authentication needed? I wish more tools had such a friction free way to try them.
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- sharperguy 3y agoit seems to have firefox as a dependency
- hopw_roewur_ne 3y agoYes, the page is rendered remotely in Firefox and turned into text transmitted over SSH.
- meinheld111 3y agoCute and sexy but I can’t help but wonder whether it misses the point
- gawa 3y agoCould you share why it misses the point according to you? On the website the following use-case is mentioned: > run firefox remotely in order to "significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs." Another use-case would be running firefox on a remote server with just enough power while using ssh on a smaller, weaker, device (raspbery pi like, an old smartphone with termux, very old hardware, ...). It's hard to build a browser engine, especially if you intend to support a seemless modern web experience (and thus with javascript, unlike all the text-browsers out there). Some even argue it's not possible to build a modern web browser engine anymore [1]. I think it's the point for browsh to rely on another piece of software that will focus on just that (headless firefox). Browsh is described as a "text-based browser", but under the hood, a more technical accurate way to summarize it would be "a software to stream a remote firefox in your terminal". The concept (and why it saves bandwitch) is detailed on the docs section "What is browsh?" [2]. [1] https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.... [2] https://www.brow.sh/docs/introduction/ https://www.brow.sh/docs/introduction/
- anthk 3y agoedbrowse supports enough js to comment on some pages and download files. Felinks used to work, too.
- montroser 3y agoAre you projecting? The point is to be able to use the modern web in all of its spectacular complexity, from within a text-based terminal. Which goal it actually achieves!
- mixmastamyk 3y agoIt's neat yes. But prevents it being used on a headless server without graphics installed. That's primarily where I'd use a text browser... need to download a package/archive but also need to search for it first. If I have firefox installed, I'd just use it!
- gitinit 3y agoThis can, however, be run entirely inside of Docker - something I’ve done numerous times on a remote sever. This even allows for the web interface to be used, though that kind of defeats the purpose.
- voidz 3y agoNeat! Very handy for looking up issues remotely. It has a dependency on firefox, but on systems that have Nix, that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
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- aumerle 3y agoAnd a full browser runnning in the terminal: https://github.com/chase/awrit https://github.com/chase/awrit
- asicsp 3y agoSee also: https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/ https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/ - a web browser for your terminal
- focom 3y agosr.ht is such a pain to browse, why would someone pick this over GitHub.
- systems 3y agoand it doesnt show the project language(s), the first thing i do when checking a repo on github is to check the languages used, and usually this help me decided whether or not i want to follow this project or not ocaml, f#, clojure, zig, raku, array language --> insta follow rust, smalltalk , lisp/scheme --> 50-50 python --> boooo , not gonna follow
- neuromanser 3y agoWhat did you have trouble with? Genuinely curious.
- nihzm 3y agoPlease refrain from writing comments like these. From the HN guidelines Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- polunom 3y agoBeen following this project for a bit, super cool
- joouha 3y agoI wrote an HTML renderer [0] as part of euporie [1], which I'm planning on eventually spinning into a new terminal browser (but it needs a bit more work first). There's no JS support, but a good chunk of CSS is implemented, and images are displayed using terminal graphics if your terminal supports it. You can try it out by passing a URL to `euporie-notebook`. [1] https://github.com/joouha/euporie/blob/dev/euporie/core/ft/html.py https://github.com/joouha/euporie/blob/dev/euporie/core/ft/h... [0] https://github.com/joouha/euporie https://github.com/joouha/euporie
- nerder92 3y agoCan people share some use-case for this kind of tools?
- nsonha 3y agobrow the web from a dumb terminal?
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- adamdegas 3y agoBattery life
- anthk 3y agoNot so much; running Chrome headlessly can yield almost the same power usage as a graphical spawn one.
- tombh 3y agoFrom the README: If you only have a 3kbps internet connection tethered from a phone, then it's good to SSH into a server and browse the web through, say, elinks. That way the server downloads the web pages and uses the limited bandwidth of an SSH connection to display the result. However, traditional text-based browsers lack JS and all other modern HTML5 support. Browsh is different in that it's backed by a real browser, namely headless Firefox, to create a purely text-based version of web pages and web apps. These can be easily rendered in a terminal or indeed, ironically, in another browser. Do note that currently the browser client doesn't have feature parity with the terminal client.
- poulpy123 3y agoI'm a bit surprised by the use of firefox, but it's great to see web tools not based on chrome
- oehpr 3y agoI love this stupid thing
- tombh 3y agoAlso see: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl