Commands tagged w3m (5)

  • Read PDFs in the command line

    Turns a PDF into HTML (without images) and prints it to the standard out which is picked up and interpreted by w3m.


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    pdftohtml -i -stdout FILE.pdf | w3m -T text/html
    Haegin · 2010-11-03 12:01:01 44
  • Get NFL/MLB Scores/Time

    change the nfl in the url to mlb or nba to get those score/times as well Show Sample Output


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    w3m -no-cookie http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/scoreboard?|sed 's/ Final/ : Final/g'|sed 's/ F\// : F\//g'|sed 's/, / : /g'|grep -i ':'
    SQUIIDUX · 2010-11-15 01:18:19 17
  • Get sunrise time for any city, by name

    Uses Google's "OneBox" to look up the sunrise in any city by name. If no city is specified, it defaults to Seattle. For the sunset time, you change the search query to "sunset", like so, . sunset() { city=${1-Seattle}; w3m "google.com/search?q=sunset:$city" | sed -r '1,/^\s*1\./d; /^\s*2\./,$d; /^$/d' ;} . "OneBox" is Google's term for that box that appears before the organic search results that has useful information that Google thinks you might be looking for (mathematical calculations, weather, currency conversions, and such). I'm not actually using OneBox correctly, but that's because I'm not sure that there is a "correctly". I looked for a command line API, but couldn't find one, so I settled on parsing stdout from the fantastic w3m web browser. I use the sed script to show only the first hit by deleting everything from the beginning of the file until it sees " 1." and then deleting everything from " 2." to the end of the file. Ugly and fragile, yes, but it works fine. . BUG1: w3m represents the picture of the sun rising, "weather_sunset-40.gif" as "[weat]" which is slightly confusing and probably should be removed. . BUG2: The output is more easily readable by a human, which means it's less useful for scripting. Show Sample Output


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    sunrise() { city=${1-Seattle}; w3m "google.com/search?q=sunrise:$city" | sed -r '1,/^\s*1\./d; /^\s*2\./,$d; /^$/d' ;}
    hackerb9 · 2010-11-02 21:24:23 3
  • duckduckgo search to w3m browser

    Just feed classical duckduckgo request replacing the "!" for the bang by a "-" (ie. "ddg -gi mickey mouse") and the result will be opened in w3m (think of installing w3m-img for image support in xterm or tty) To put it in the .bashrc, remove the "\" that escapes the "!".


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    ddg(){ search=""; bang=""; for term in $@; do if [[ "$term" =~ -([A-Za-z0-9._%+-]*) ]]; then bang="\!${BASH_REMATCH[1]}" ; else search="$search%20$term" ; fi ; done ; w3m "https://www.duckduckgo.com/?q=$bang$search" ;}
    boustrophedon757 · 2013-10-30 21:41:36 6
  • get a random command-line-fu tip

    You can put this at .bashrc or .profile and get a random tip every time you open a terminal Show Sample Output


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    w3m -dump http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random/plaintext
    noobcodr · 2017-05-14 02:11:12 21

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