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ELinks is a free text-based console web browser for Unix-like operating systems.

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Elinks or Lynx?

Please, state your reasons for your terminal browser. Why are you using Lynx or Elinks? How do they help you in programming?
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Elinks: SSL Error

My problem is simple, only look the screenshot: **For tired eyes: -bash-4.1$ cat…
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SSL certificates and elinks

I sometimes use elinks for web browsing and it happens that some https sites fail to load because of an SSL error. One example is https://www.rust-lang.org that doesn't load in elinks, but work fine other browsers like chromium and firefox. Checking…
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elinks reports `Bad HTTP response` in Mac OS

I just installed elinks via brew install elinks in my Macbook. When I open http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html in elinks, it reports Bad HTTP response. Then I tried the same web address with elinks in Debian 8, it works fine. What's…
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How to get html source code of a web page

I was using curl to scrape html code from a certain website. then they changed their server settings and curl no longer can get the page content giving error code 1020 then I changed my script to use elinks. but again they are now using cloudflare…
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Maintaining keyboard control when calling external command in elinks

Currently, using a method described here, I am able to stream YouTube videos without using X windows/Flash. My primary text-based browser is elinks, and you can call external programs and pass to it your currently selected link by adding this to…
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How to enter google account through Browser Elinks on (UBUNTU 20.04). ECMAScript has been installed added to Elinks and activated

I'm having trouble (entering my google account) through the Elinks Browser. I already installed it, added it and activated (ECMAScript) in Elinks to get (enter my google account). But even so, it returned to (Scripts error when I try to enter the…
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CURL on Dell support website - access denied

I am trying to reach dell support website to be able to check server's warranty from the terminal. I have found this link for curl, but it returns me access denied error. curl…
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I want to open multiple elinks at regular interval of 6 seconds

I want to open multiple elinks at regular interval of 6 seconds #!/bin/sh for i in 1 2 do echo "Looping ... number $i"; elinks 'http://google.com' ; q ; sleep 6; elinks 'http://google.com'; q ; sleep 1800; done HOw do I quit 1st elink and open…
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Is elinks the only text-based browser that has extensible support for scripts like lua?

Extensibility by lua scripting has made me choose elinks text-based browser among the many alternatives out there. However, it is not obvious to me and hard to pinned down if wither the other text-based browsers also support some kind of extension…
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pkg-config: command not found, but ONLY when installing via Homebrew

I'm trying to install elinks with ECMAScript support on a Mac (El Capitan) via Homebrew. To make sure everything would compile correctly, I first manually downloaded the package myself to ./configure and then make. It didn't recognize my…
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Horizontal Navigation In Text Based Browsers

In the old days of table based layouts it was relatively simple to make a horizontal nav bar that rendered horizontally in both graphical and text based browsers. Now the standard way of making a horizontal nav-bar is by using an unordered list and…
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gvim windows netrw filehandler html elinks configuration

I'm using gvim 7.3, MS-Windows 32-bit GUI version with OLE support I'm attempting to configure the netrw filehandler to open locally saved .html files in with the elinks browser, rather than the firefox browser. The help file for netrw refers to a…
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elinks http autentication

I'm trying to use linux elinks text browser to go to a website. This site requires http authentication. If I press escape it and hide the login prompt once and then If I try to go the particular website again it doesn't show the login prompt again.…
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Translate from a language to English on the console

I work with in a company with various other languages to my own (English) and so I use https://translate.google.com a reasonable amount, but as I am on the terminal a lot, I would find a lot of convenience in being able to do that there than having…
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