Surfraw vs emacs-w3m

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Surfraw		emacs-w3m
	Project
3	Mentions	3
-	Stars	106
-	Growth	1.9%
-	Activity	6.2
-	Latest Commit	23 days ago
	Language	Emacs Lisp
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Surfraw

Posts with mentions or reviews of Surfraw. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-18.

Setting up lynx
4 projects | /r/commandline | 18 Jul 2022

Also going to share this one, more for everyone else that's forgotten about it, https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw turns your terminal into a search engine. Its basically a wrapper around lynx (or any browser via the $BROWSER environment variable) to about 99% of every searchable site out there. Can even be extended with simple bash for new sites or even apis (yes, xml/rest/graphql apis).
Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2022
Mozilla is officially against an open net. Wants governments to pass laws suppressing "conspiracy theory" content. AKA any recognition that our governing class are malevolent. If you use Mozilla, ditch it.
3 projects | /r/thehatedone | 14 Jun 2021

emacs-w3m

Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs-w3m. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-25.

emacs-w3m: A simple Emacs interface to w3m
1 project | /r/planetemacs | 18 Nov 2022
Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2022

There's also a package "emacs-w3m", an interface for the w3m web browser: https://github.com/emacs-w3m/emacs-w3m
Surf Browser in GNU Emacs
1 project | /r/emacs | 29 Dec 2021

and here I was using w3m (with images!)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Surfraw and emacs-w3m you can also consider the following projects:

fetch - wik is use to get information about anything on the shell using Wikipedia. [Moved to: https://github.com/yashsinghcodes/wik]

doom-modeline - A fancy and fast mode-line inspired by minimalism design.

gopherpedia.com - gopher server for gopherpedia.com, an interface to wikipedia

min - A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

pywikibot - A Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API. This is a mirror from gerrit.wikimedia.org. Do not submit any patches here. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_account for contributing.

bin - My ~/bin dir

centaur-tabs - Emacs plugin aiming to become an aesthetic, modern looking tabs plugin

so - A terminal interface for Stack Overflow

youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

ox-hugo - A carefully crafted Org exporter back-end for Hugo