Web Terminal Tools

The World Wide Web (or the Web for short) has been a cornerstone for information sharing since its birth in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN with the first web browsers, WorldWideWeb and Lynx the oldest browser still being maintained today.

 

Common use cases for the the web are videos, reading news, financial applications, social networking and collaboration, all using mobile and desktop.

 

Below is a list of terminal tools that work with and use web technologies.

  1. youtube-dl - Download videos from YouTube and other video sites.
  1. fork-cleaner - A tool to clean up old and inactive forks on your GitHub account.
  1. lobtui - A TUI for lobste.rs website.
  1. monolith - A CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file.
  1. slumber - Terminal-based HTTP/REST client.
  1. lexy - A CLI for reading Learn X in Y Minutes directly into your terminal.
  1. wget - A utility for non-interactive download of files from the web.
  1. termdbms - A terminal UI for editing database files
  1. atac - A simple API client (postman like) in your terminal.
  1. wiki-tui - A fast Wikipedia CLI/TUI client
  1. goaccess - a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer.
  1. brows - A GitHub releases browser for the terminal
  1. reader - Readability for the command line.
  1. w3m - A pager and/or text-based browser.
  1. hnterm - Hacker News in the terminal.
  1. bbcli - A TUI for accessing BBC News in the terminal.
  1. ddgr - DuckDuckGo from the terminal.
  1. hurl - Run and test HTTP requests with plain text.
  1. twitch-tui - A Twitch chat TUI client for the terminal
  1. enola - A CLI tool to search for usernames across social networks.
  1. curl - A command line tool and library for transferring data.
  1. links - A fast and lightweight web browser running in both graphics and text mode.
  1. oha - A tiny TUI program that sends some load to a web application.
  1. chawan - A TUI web browser.
  1. aria2 - The ultra fast download utility.
  1. gh-dash - An interactive GitHub Dashboard for your terminal.
  1. tinboard - A terminal-based client for pinboard.in
  1. curlie - The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.
  1. tasktimer - A dead simple TUI task timer.
  1. lynx - A TUI based web browser.
  1. gallery-dl - Download image galleries and collections from image hosting sites.
  1. stormy - Minimal, customizable, and neofetch-like weather CLI.
  1. so - A terminal interface for Stack Overflow.
  1. youtube-tui - An aesthetically pleasing YouTube TUI written in Rust
  1. updo - Uptime monitoring CLI tool with alerting and advanced settings.
  1. elinks - A full-featured text www browser.
  1. yt-dlp - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
  1. mastui - A Modern Mastodon TUI Client.
  1. rustormy - Minimal neofetch-like weather CLI.
  1. dirsearch - A web path scanner for finding hidden files and directories.
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