[angeldimitrov94]

I just don't understand...what is the use case of this? I thought it would be something that cleverly renders text without style in a minimalist-browser sort of way. But this just literally...shows you the web page...in the CLI? I'm confused.

[westurner]

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)

[shiomiru]

I can't speak for the other projects you listed, but at least chawan is actively maintained by yours truly.

[westurner]

My mistake! Lynx and elinks still work but don't exec JS or WASM.

Cloudflare Browser Isolation runs part of the browser in the cloud, which might work for TUIs ..

Research open source solutions for self-hosting remote browser isolation;

Like these browser isolation Chrome extensions: https://www.legba.app/blog/best-browser-isolation-extensions...

And these:

RBI: remote-browser-isolation · GitHub Topics https://github.com/topics/remote-browser-isolation?o=asc&s=u...

Cloudflare Browser Rendering REST API https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/rest-api... says 10/min day free (which is probably enough for an open source project that needs to run screenshots at various resolutions on a few builds per day)

But then there's this, which currently only execs partial js:

  elinks -dump -no-references -dump-width 79

[jadbox]

You could terminal into a remote machine terminal and use a web browser in the tty without needing an X11 windowing support.

[angeldimitrov94]

Struggling to see the reasoning behind why you would need to do this if you are remoting into a machine, meaning you have a real machine that you can just open a browser in. Seems more like a solution looking for a problem to me.

There's never been a situation in which I wished I had a browser like this in the CLI.

There have been situations in which I wish I could just get a simplified text version of any site without the styling, but I never once wished I could see the actual full site in all its glory in the CLI.

[reddit_clone]

Unless you have x-forwarding (and an X server running locally) or VNC you can't really use a graphical browser remotely yes?

This lets you use it from plain SSH connection?

[jpc0]

In what situation do you need to do that is what the previous commenter qas getting at.

If you want a graphical browser just open it locally...

[janantos]

The primary idea was just can it be done. But it then went crazy, being mentioned on big portals such as hackaday, makeuseof, etc… I have also received messages people using this to access internal Grafana stack without need to be on VPN, so people found the reason for its existence by themselves. Also I am big fan of terminal apps, so why not.