w3m is simple Text-Based Browser support for SSL Connetions, Tables, and frame color and inline images on suitable terminal. Generally, it renders pages in a form as true to their original layout as possible. With w3m you can browse web pages through a terminal . Moreover, w3m can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into plain text.
The name “w3m” stands for “WWW o miru which is Japanese for “to see the WWW” where W3 is a numeronym of WWW.
4 things you can do with w3m:
- You can follow links and/or view images in HTML
- Internet message preview mode, you can browse HTML mail
- You can follow links in plain text if it includes URL forms
- With w3m-img, you can view inline image
To install w3m:
sudo apt-get install w3m
- Now open the terminal and type w3m google.com
- It will display the following screen:
Parveen Kaur 