running a browser from the command line...

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, bruce wrote:

> i've already been using the perl mods libwww/mechanize...
> 
> i was curious if it's possible to drive a full functioning browser from the
> command line...
> 
> wget/curl.. aren't better than libwww/mechanize/etc...
> 
> -bruce

How about lynx or links?

Ben


> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Dixon [mailto:jason at dixongroup.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 4:05 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list; bedouglas at earthlink.net
> Subject: Re: running a browser from the command line...
> 
> 
> On Jun 8, 2004, at 6:54 PM, bruce wrote:
> 
> > i'm trying to determine if it's possible/easy to run a browser from the
> > command line.. and pipe the output to a file. something like:
> >
> > \tmp\browser "www.foo.com" >outputfile.tmp
> >
> > i'm looking for a browser that i might be able to use in this
> > manner...  i
> > don't need to render the page/images... just the underlying ability to
> > get
> > the results back from a site...
> 
> Use wget or curl.
> 
> --
> Jason Dixon, RHCE
> DixonGroup Consulting
> http://www.dixongroup.net
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