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https://www.2daygeek.com/browse-open-access-website-linux-command-line-terminal/

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1) How to Open a Website Right from Your Linux Terminal Using links Command

links is a web browser running in both graphics and text mode.

It renders complex pages, supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal scrolling.

By default links package were bundled with Linux Distribution so, we can easily install it through distribution package manager.

$ links 2daygeek.com

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2) How to Access a Website Right from Your Linux Terminal Using elinks Command

elinks is fork from Links, Full-Featured Text web Browser, advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser. 
elinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts. It is quite portable and runs on a variety of platforms.

$ elinks 2daygeek.com

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3) How to Browse a Website Right from Your Linux Terminal Using lynx Command

lynx is a highly configurable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. It’s the oldest web browser and it’s still in active development.

$ lynx 2daygeek.com

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4) How to Open a Website Right from Your Linux Terminal Using w3m Command

w3m is a text-based web browser as well as a pager like `more’ or `less’. With w3m you can browse web pages through a terminal emulator window (xterm, rxvt or something like that).

Moreover, w3m can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into plain text.

$ w3m 2daygeek.com

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5) How to Access a Website Right from Your Linux Terminal Using browsh Command

browsh is a advanced, well-established, feature-rich, modern and pure text based browser which supports graphics and video.

It supports HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, video, photos and WebGL content. The terminal client updates and renders in real time that allow us to watch videos (It uses the UTF-8 half-block trick (▄) to get 2 colours from every character cell, thus simulating basic graphics) from browsh.

As per my understanding it’s not a browser since it’s not working independently to renders web pages. But It’s kind of CLI front end tool, which allows user to browse a web pages.








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