Text-based web browser

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A text-based web browser is a web browser that renders only text.

List of notable text-based web browsers

• Charlotte Web Browser (for VM/CMS)
• Emacs/W3 & EWW for GNU Emacs
• Line Mode Browser (by Tim Berners-Lee)
• Links
  • ELinks
• Lynx (and derivatives ALynx and DosLynx)
• w3m
• WebbIE
• browsh
• Carbonyl - A Chromium browser that runs in the terminal

See also

• Web browser engine
• Spegel (Terminal Browser) - A terminal browser that uses an LLM to restructure web pages

Favorite site

• Wikipedia (en) Text-based web browser