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Lynx is a cross platform, GPL licensed, text-mode web browser.

Lynx is a text-mode web browser. It renders the documents in a linearized manner which makes its output suitable for text-to-speech input and closer to what the web bots are seeing.

Lynx handles Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP. It renders most of the HTML elements in simplified but accessible ways (for example frame as link to its src, img as alt text or link to its src).

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What is the official website for the lynx, text based webbrowser?

The: http://lynx.isc.org/ is not loading. Is it the https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ what is the official for the "lynx", the text-based webbrowser?
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Lynx: "can't access start file" ... and quits

I tried using lynx (the text browser) and got the error: Can't access startfile: http://lynx.isc.org and then it quit (doh). So, the error message would seem to be incorrect because the problem is not that it cannot access the startfile. It is…
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Lynx read urls from file and download links

I have 500 urls on my file. I need to extract all the links which appear on these urls. How to read file with Lynx and extract links within the file ? Sample of file.txt below, 1 link per row and 500 rows in…
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How to insert and delete new lines with LYNX?

I am editing a text field with lynx, how can I insert a new line before another line or delete a line? I tried hitting insert and all that stuff. I looked at the man pages and didn't find anything.
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How to make Lynx COLUMN width infinite?

-width=NUMBER number of columns for formatting of dumps, default is 80. My question: "-width=999999" is not so good.. "-width=0" isn't working. How can I give the "-width" an infinite number? UPDATE: I am just trying to download a txt…
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Why `lynx --dump` is not working

When I do lynx --dump http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt It outputs the content on this web page but when I do lynx --dump https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=blob_plain;f=manuf It dumps something else than…
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Command line rebooting D-Link DWL-2100AP access point

I use Lynx web browser from remote SSH (so I have no GUI) to enter into the web interface of some router and access points. It works fine with some Ovislink and Buffalo models I have tested, but it shows no info on screen when trying to navigate…
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Prevent Lynx from using pdf viewer

I try to download a PDF file while browsing with lynx. Unfortunately, lynx tries to open that file immediately using a PDF viewer (evince) though I do not have an X server running. How can I prevent lynx from doing that and have simply "download"…
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Submit a form without a submit button in Lynx?

There's a form on a website that looks like this:
Option 1 Option 2 Option 3
In…
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Navigation and images in Lynx text browser

I like the Lynx text browser because it works in a terminal and I figure it probably more or less completely immunizes me from browser-based security vulnerabilities. However... there are a couple of things I find annoying. One is navigating to a…
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Does Lynx have a view similar to Browser "Reader view"

Is there a Reader view for Lynx? to explain trying to find answers to the following questions: is there a Reader view (similar to Firefox: Reader View)? is it possible to create add-in or extension? is it possible to modify the default view? is…
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Lynx cookies not being saved

If I'm not wrong, Lynx will save the cookies from a session on a file, the default is ~/.lynx_cookies. But, when I accept cookies in Lynx session with Always or Yes when prompted, the cookies doesn't saved! Lynx man page…
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How to open several local (HTML) documents in lynx?

I was planning to use lynx for reading all local HTML files in a folder: lynx ~/Documents/webpages/* I don't know how to move beyond the first document. Quitting with qq exits the program and returns to the shell. Specifying the directory (lynx…
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Extracting ALL links from soundcloud page using lynx browser

To extract urls from a site, it is usually enough to run: lynx -dump -listonly https://soundcloud.com/grubstakers > urls.txt But I get only the latest episodes, instead of the urls of all of them (along some spurious urls). Is it possible to do…
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How to get lynx to recognize whitespace in filenames

I'm using a script to find a list of all .pdf files on a url. But lynx seems to have a problem with spaces in filenames. Here's the script: lynx --dump http://www.somesite/here/ | awk '/http/{print $2} | grep pdf > ~/Desktop/links.txt This works as…
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