w3m is a text-based web browser as well as a pager like ‘more’ or ‘less’. w3m is an abbreviation of “WWW-wo-Miru”, which is Japanese for “See the WWW”.
With w3m you can browse web pages through a terminal emulator window (xterm, rxvt or something like that). Further, w3m can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into plain text.
It is able to process HTML tables and frames but it ignores JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets.
Features include:
- Supports tables.
- Renders frames by converting frames into tables.
- Supports colors.
- Organizes its content in buffers or tabs, allowing easy navigation between them.
- With the w3m-img extension installed, w3m can display inline graphics in web pages.
- Where w3m’s HTML rendering capabilities do not meet requirements, the target URL can be handed over to a graphical browser with a single command.
- Cookies.
- Authentication.
- SSL verify
- IPV6 FQDN resolv.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, and EWS4800.
Website: sourceforge.net/projects/w3m
Support: Manual, FAQ
Developer: Akinori Ito and contributors
License: MIT License
w3m is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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