Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????)

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

tomas@tuxteam.de (tomas@tuxteam.de) wrote:
> To expand on that, perhaps
> 
>   wget -O - <your URL here> | html2text
> 
> tries to make sense of the html (which isn't always possible) and
> output some text version of it. The "-O -" tells wget to send its
> output to stdout (instead of to a file).
> 
> You get html2text from the like-named package, html2text.

There are several other variants on this, depending on what's installed.
One of the most common (oldest) ones is lynx -dump "$url".

Most of the terminal-based web browsers have a similar output mode, I
think.