between google and firefox it's nearly impossible to get anything done!

Mon Apr 15 11:55:48 UTC 2019

It's not possible to pipe anything to firefox.  I need a javascript
browser that can handle pipes for this one.  I'm going with my braille
paper solution since I don't want to waste more time on this.  This is a
situation mozilla never imagined would come up I'm sure.

On Mon, 15 Apr 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 07:26:24
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: between google and firefox it's nearly impossible to get anything
>      done!
>
> Tim here.  Are you trying to open firefox on the same machine or on a
> different machine, and if a different machine, what operating system
> is that other machine running?
>
> If it's the same machine, I'd recommend using xsel or xclip (one
> might already be installed; otherwise, I prefer xsel over xclip).
> You can then use a standard pipeline to extract the line from the
> file and put it in the system clipboard.  If the URL is the only
> thing in the file, it's pretty easy:
>
>   xsel -ib < url_file.txt
>
> This puts the URL in your system clipboard so you can use control+V
> to paste it into the address-bar in Firefox.
>
> If you have multiple URLs in the file, you might want to tag them
> with a keyword to help you find them:
>
>   email https://gmail.com
>   long http://example.com/long/path/to/page
>
> You can then extract the URLs with awk and pipe to xsel:
>
>   awk '$1 == "long"{print $2}' | xsel -ib
>
> or even wrap it in a shell function in your .bashrc/.bash_profile
>
>   url() {
>     awk -vNAME="$1" '$1 == NAME{print $2}' | xsel -ib
>   }
>
> which would then let you type
>
>   $ url long
>
> to get that long URL in your clipboard.
>
> If you're trying to get it onto another machine, it would depend
> on the OS and what tools you have for connecting to the Linux box.
> MacOS has a similar pbcopy/pbpaste command that would let you SSH
> into your Linux box, search for the URL there, emitting the result,
> and then piping that into pbcopy for local use.  I'm afraid I don't
> have recent Windows experience to determine how that would work over
> on Windows.
>
> Hopefully this gives you some ideas and saves you a lot of
> hand-transcribing of URLs.
>
> -tim
>
> On April 15, 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > I have a long ugly google url stored in a file.  It's stored in a
> > file so if I find a browser that works with javascript and can take
> > an url from a file when the browser gets started and open that url
> > for me I can maybe get this done.  The long ugly url is over 200
> > characters long which is why I would like to avoid keying it all in.
> >
> > I just thought of something.  This will even work with firefox but
> > it's only for us braille users who write braille on paper and have
> > plenty of paper.  I could rewrite the url on paper so it's split
> > into 5 character groups and have commas separating each of the
> > groups and as I key in each group change the comma to a semicolon
> > so I know that group already got keyed in and move along to the
> > next group.
> >
> > On Sun, 14 Apr 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:36:40
> > > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > > To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > > Subject: Re: between google and firefox it's nearly impossible to
> > > get anything done!
> > >
> > > I am unsure what you are trying to accomplish, but have you tried
> > > e-links, or links the chain  instead?
> > > Both browsers are included in Debian distributions of Linux.  It
> > > may still require some extra compile work  for e-links to use
> > > Javascript some, links the chain can do so, I am told as of about
> > > a month ago, even in DOS. Generally I  have no issues using the
> > > Google services I need in lynx, but I am not doing anything with
> > > YouTube. Kare
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > >
> > > > I found out a few minutes ago it's not possible to do something
> > > > like: firefox < /home/jude/surf
> > > > Where /home/jude/surf has an ugly google url in it that cannot
> > > > be processed by
> > > > lynx since google and so very many other web sites love
> > > > blocking what doesn't use javascript.
> > > > I was going to get an authentication token on this box so I
> > > > could use youtube-viewer in a logged in state but that's not
> > > > going to happen at all.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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