Browsh

Browsh is a web browser that can be run from a terminal client environments such as ssh or Mosh or from a web browser client. It represents web pages as text.

Browsh
Developer(s)Thomas Buckley-Houston
Stable release
1.6.4 [1] / 19 June 2019 (2019-06-19)
Repository
Operating systemall major platforms[2]
TypeWeb browser
Websitehttps://www.brow.sh

Technology

The Browsh web browser which represents web pages as text and can be run either from a terminal client environment or from a web browser.[3] As of August 2018 the web browser client remains less developed.[3] It has been developed since 23 April 2016.[4] It uses Go as a core part of its implementation.[3] Browsh uses a headless version of Mozilla Firefox to fetch and parse web pages.[3]

Reception

This may be seen as a modern replacement for the Lynx text-based web browser.[5] Others have felt displaying the web in text is impractical.[6]

References
  1. "browsh - the modern text based browser". browsh. Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  2. "Downloads". browsh. Archived from the original on 4 September 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  3. "Introduction". browsh. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  4. "Github". github. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  5. Larabel, Michael (10 July 2018). "Browsh: A Modern, Text-Based Web Browser". Phoronix. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  6. "Browsh es el navegador que muestra la web en ASCII: poco práctico, pero sorprendente como concepto" [Browsh is the browser that shows the web in ASCII: impractical, but surprising as a concept] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 October 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.


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