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I am searching for a text browser running JavaScript. It should be compatible with Linux platform.
Other features:
XHR (is supposed to do if it runs js)Any recommendations?
I tried lynx and elinks (sudo apt-get install ...), both not supporting JS.
// , Consider brow.sh, because of its low bandwidth but extremely flexible support for different kinds of web pages:
It also has a clever way of using True color support in terminals to render images, and supports modern replacements for SSH like MOSH.
Here are some demo pages:
html.brow.sh
Uses very basic graphics and HTML anchor tags. Although this service may appear similar to the terminal client it does not yet have feature parity.text.brow.sh
Uses nothing but pure text, better for usage with curl, for instance.
For a demo of the browser, ssh brow.sh
You can also install it via docker pull:
docker pull browsh/browsh
Because brow.sh is Firefox under the hood, you can install Adblock and other extensions.
Lynx does not support JavaScript, but Links does:
sudo apt-get install links
then to compile Links with JavaScript support, use the configure option
--enable-javascript be aware that is buggy according to the documentation.
Best of luck
alert(1) but nothing is displayed.
Jan 13, 2015 at 20:01
alert is not the best test, because there's a difference between "running Javascript" and "showing alert boxes". It's better to test with document.write("hello world") to put the test text into the document itself, because quite a few browsers that are perfectly Javascript capable may be set to suppress alert boxes, so "yes we support Javascript but not alert boxes" is a reasonable position (so if you specifically want support for alert boxes then I'm afraid you have to say so☺)
Jun 22, 2020 at 13:07
2017 solution:
Here's a solution for rendering html+js in the terminal:
Required:
Example Usage:
$ google-chrome --headless --disable-gpu --dump-dom https://javatester.org/javascript.html | hermit
$ chromium --headless --disable-gpu --dump-dom https://javatester.org/javascript.html |html2text
Output:
...
Your web browser supports JavaScript version 1.7
...
It worked!
<noscript>, Chrome does not remove noscript elements from its DOM output, and Hermit renders noscript because it doesn't expect the Javascript to have been executed. To hide <noscript> we'll need either (a) Hermit to be enhanced with a "remove noscript" option or (b) extra Javascript to somehow be injected into the page to remove noscript via DOM manipulation in Chrome or (c) add something else to the toolchain to remove noscript before Hermit sees it. (My Web Adjuster removes noscript if js_interpreter is set)
Jun 22, 2020 at 12:54
lynx -stdin -dump -nolist instead of hermit, but either way you will get text from <noscript> included unless you somehow take it out.
Jun 22, 2020 at 13:00
As of v0.23, Web Adjuster has a PhantomJS option, which can partially Javascript-enable any browser with the help of PhantomJS. I say "partially" because it's not (yet?) working with POST forms and Javascript-only links, but it's fine for reading the text of a page which requires Javascript before showing you that text.
sudo apt-get install python-selenium # or sudo yum install python-selenium
wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-i686.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-i686.tar.bz2
cd phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-i686/
sudo mv bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/
cd ..
sudo apt-get install python-tornado # or sudo pip-install tornado
wget http://ssb22.user.srcf.net/adjuster/adjuster.py
python adjuster.py --js_interpreter=PhantomJS --real_proxy
and in another window or tab
http_proxy=http://localhost:28080 lynx http://site-that-needs-javascript.example.com/
Disclosure: Web Adjuster maintainer here.
adjuster.py wants ` sudo apt install firefox-geckodriver python adjuster.py --js_interpreter=HeadlessFirefox --real_proxy ` I get the error messages: Web Adjuster v0.305 (c) 2012-20 Silas S. Brown Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 Listening on port 28080 Starting 1 webdriver... done
Jun 20, 2020 at 14:17
--PhantomJS option into --js_interpreter because there are now 3 to choose from (PhantomJS, HeadlessFirefox or HeadlessChrome). Since PhantomJS is no longer maintained, I now recommend using HeadlessFirefox or HeadlessChrome, and only using PhantomJS as a last resort if you're unable to install either of the others on the machine you're using. But for the record, I think phantomjs exit code 127 can mean it couldn't execute the binary (e.g. wrong architecture, or path issues).
Jun 22, 2020 at 13:20
Non-pseudographical browser, ed-like interface.
Documentation: http://the-brannons.com/edbrowse/usersguide.html
Demo session:
$ edbrowse http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/
no ssl certificate file specified; secure connections cannot be verified
no trailing newline
74558
6590
# Let's print the beginning of the page
1,20p
{current community}
*
{chat}
{blog}
{Software Recommendations}
*
{Software Recommendations Meta}
your communities
{Sign up} or {log in} to customize your list.
{more stack exchange communities}
# Seach field is not here yet.
# Pressing "Enter" until we find it
{Stack Exchange}
{sign up}
{log in}
{tour}
{help}
* {Tour Start here for a quick overview of the site}
* {Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have}
* {Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site}
<> <Go implicit>
# Here it is. Let's find the line number
n
32
28,32n
28 * {Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have}
29 * {Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site}
30 <> <Go implicit>
31
32
30
<> <Go implicit>
# We are now focused on the search field.
i=text browser
<text browser> <Go implicit>
i*
submitting form
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# OK, we have searched. Let's enumerate the results.
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* {Ask Question}
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<text browser>|<search>
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{relevance}
{newest}
{votes}
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I am searching for a text browser running JavaScript.
It should be compatible with Linux platform.
Other features:
* run JavaScript (this is the most important)
* minor CSS rendering (text colors, background colors, borders maybe)
* support XHR (is supposed to do if it runs js)
* run in command line (terminal)
Any recommendations?
I tried lynx and elinks (sudo apt-get install ...), both not supporting JS.
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Call me crazy, but I think {links} supports javascript.
- {dotVezz} Sep 23 '14 at 16:38
@dotVezz If you prove me that, I will give you 100 points. :smile:
Add an answer with the instructions and I will review it.
:-) - {Ionic\u0103 Biz\u0103u} Sep 23 '14 at 16:54
I should have done some google-fu before I commented.
Javascript support is not available by default.
Both it and elinks have an --enable-javascript compile flag.
By default, "{JavaScript support was removed in release 2.1pre29 because it
was buggy.}" So in other words... I probably wouldn't bother with links and elinks.
- {dotVezz} Sep 23 '14 at 19:47
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102 - {dotVezz} Sep 23 '14 at 19:47
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