know of a command line controled web browser ?

[nephish]

Hey there, i am looking for a web browser that i can manipulate from the command line.
i know that with mozilla i have about six or seven commands that i read about on the mozilla website, like
mozilla - remote "openurl(www.somethingorother.com)"
and an already open mozilla browser will go there.
really cool. but i need one that can do more stuff, like download a page and maybe even send an email (right now it can just open the email program window)

so, i guess it doesn't matter what browser i use ( konqueror, firefox, galeon, whatever) as long as it can be controlled from a command line.

anybody know of any?

thanks

[cybertron]

lynx/links/links2? I don't know about sending e-mail, but they can be told to download a page. They're completely terminal-based though. Also, wget can download sites for you too. That's probably the best way to do it since that's what wget is designed for.

[nephish]

are either lynx, links or links2 javascript enabled?
thanks

[chrism01]

I think you may want to look at Perl with such modules as WWW::Mechanize if you want to get into serious website access/manipulation from the cmd line.

[nephish]

hey cool, i will check it out
thanks

[knute]

There is also w3m (http://w3m.sourceforge.net/), and
netrik (http://netrik.sourceforge.net/) .

I'm partial to w3m myself. :)

I just tried out netrik, and it's still rather new, but is suppose to eventully support javascript.

As I've only spent a couple of minutes using netrik, I can't say one way or the other about it.

HTH

[psych-major]

mutt is a good cli email program.

[Pierre Lambion]

To download a page from a script or command line, the obvious candidate is wget.
To email from teh command line, you could use one of the following:
nullmailer (http://untroubled.org/nullmailer/)
http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/
http://esmtp.sourceforge.net/

If you really need a scripted full graphical browser, your best bet is KDE's konqueror: as any kde software if can be 'driven' through dcop calls and scripts.

P.

[nephish]

well thats cool, especially about konqueror,
know where the docs are to run that ?
thanks

[Pierre Lambion]

You can use kdcop to browse dcop object and there properties, but here are two starting points:
http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/36/KDE_Scripting_DCOP.pdf
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-dcop/?ca=dgr-kdeml01KDEDCOP
P.

[nephish]

cool, thanks very much.
appreciate it a lot