Use Browser in your terminal using 'brow.sh'!

Wednesday 15 December 2021 10:39 AM Beirut Time · 491

Wajdi Alkayal

Use Browser in your terminal using 'brow.sh'!

This tool, called “Browsh” (which I just found recently) is a modern tool to view any webpage in the terminal! According to the website:

Browsh is a fully-modern text-based browser. It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. Its main purpose is to be run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service in order to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs.

I just tried browsh tool today, and the result is amazing! The interface of the webpage opened in the terminal is very similar to the webpage opened in the browser. (Though it can’t be that perfect, it’s still pretty good.)

It supports most of the websites, and can be run on any Linux distribution/Mac OS.
Follow their official guide here to install.

Browsh depends on Firefox browser to load, render the web pages, etc.
According to the official website:

Browsh consists of a minimal Golang CLI client and a browser webextension. Most of the work is done by the webextension. When the CLI starts, it looks for a compatible browser (currently only Firefox) and starts it in headless mode. Once the browser has started it opens a remote debugging connection and installs the extension.
When a web page loads in the browser, custom scripts are injected into the page which then connect to Browsh’s background process in the webextension. This background process is itself connected to the CLI client via a websocket.

Well, we can control the website using our mouse, but using the keyboard shortcuts is much more better.

These are the keyboard shortcuts in Browsh:
Note that OSX users need to use the ⌘/Command key instead of CTRL.
F1 Opens the documentation
ARROW KEYS, PGUP, PGDN Scrolling
CTRL+q Exit app
CTRL+l Focus the URL bar
BACKSPACE Go back in history
CTRL+r Reload page
CTRL+t New tab
CTRL+w Close tab
CTRL+\ Cycle to next tab

ALT+SHIFT+p Takes a screenshot. The status bar will display the saved path
ALT+m Toggles monochrome mode. Useful for overcoming rendering problems on older terminals.
ALT+u Toggles the user agent between a desktop and a mobile device. Useful for smaller terminals that want to use a more suitable layout.

They have many things in the official docs, like the extensions, and much more! - HERE

This is all about Browsh! You can visit their homepage or their docs for more.

Thanks for reading :) If you have any questions, feel free to comment below or contact me

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