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. fork-cleaner - A tool to clean up old and inactive forks on your GitHub account.
  1. lexy - A CLI for reading Learn X in Y Minutes directly into your terminal.
  1. lobtui - A TUI for lobste.rs website.
  1. monolith - A CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file.
  1. termdbms - A terminal UI for editing database files
  1. hnterm - Hacker News in the 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. ddgr - DuckDuckGo from the terminal.
  1. hurl - Run and test HTTP requests with plain text.
  1. enola - A CLI tool to search for usernames across social networks.
  1. bbcli - A TUI and CLI for accessing BBC News in the terminal.
  1. curl - A command line tool and library for transferring data.
  1. twitch-tui - A Twitch chat TUI client for the terminal
  1. oha - A tiny TUI program that sends some load to a web application.
  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. 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. 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. youtube-tui - An aesthetically pleasing YouTube TUI written in Rust
  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.
  1. aria2tui - A TUI client for the aria2 download utility.
  1. yt-x - Browse youtube from your terminal.
  1. dealve-tui - Delve into game deals from your terminal.
  1. atac - A simple API client (postman like) in your terminal.
  1. perch - A beautiful terminal social client for Mastodon and Bluesky.
  1. reddix - Reddit, refined for the terminal.
  1. rogallo - A terminal client for browsing the Gemini protocol.
  1. chawan - A TUI web browser.
  1. noodle - A delicious REST client for your terminal.
  1. threatdeck - A terminal based threat intelligence monitoring and alerting platform.
  1. ytm-player - A YouTube Music TUI client with vim keybindings, synced lyrics, and cross-platform media keys.
  1. youtube-dl - Download videos from YouTube and other video sites.
  1. lynx - A TUI based web browser.
  1. bullmq-dash - A TUI dashboard for BullMQ.
  1. xytz - A YouTube TUI for searching and downloading videos from YouTube and other sites.
  1. slumber - Terminal-based HTTP/REST client.
  1. wget - A utility for non-interactive download of files from the web.
  1. links - A fast and lightweight web browser running in both graphics and text mode.
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