Surf the ‘net on the terminal via w3m
April 29, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under Geeky Fun, applications
Looking for a way to surf the ‘net on the terminal? Use w3m!
I’ve used w3m time and again because it’s quaint that way. 
I usually use it as an Emacs macro/extension. It’s nice! I could read webpages while in Emacs, aside from the terminal.
You could look it in Synaptic if you’re using Ubuntu. You could also check it in apt. Or your package manager.
There are really nifty commands from the w3m manual:
w3m [options] [filename|URL] -s — this one is for displaying pages in shift JIS so if you’re viewing a Japanese page, chances are you’d find this good as an option
w3m -T text/plain [filename|URL] — if you want to get the source HTML.
Who says you can’t do anything from the command line when there are so many tools you could use?
