GitHub - keyle/wez: Modern terminal web browser with vim bindings

wez is a keyboard-first terminal web browser.

It aims to be fast and readable in a text UI, with practical browsing features and minimal setup.

Highlights

• Readable HTML rendering in TUI (based on tcell) - w3m like
• vim-like bindings, search, link/form activation, and key remapping
• downloads for binary responses with configuable folder
• history view
• bookmarks view and bookmarking with categories
• form handling, basic
• cache, persistent cookies, visited links
• view source with syntax colouring and reformatting
• yanking (copy), v/V visual support, mouse support
• images preview with external tool support, e.g. viu
• svg preview with external tool, e.g. timg
• recents are shown on the welcome page
• back/forward navigation keeps per-page view state (up to 25 pages)
• anchor links and in-page jumps are supported
• image download shortcut (Ctrl-I)
• no JavaScript runtime
• visible noscript indicates unfriendly websites

Install (macOS)

Homebrew

    brew tap keyle/tap
    brew install wez

Otherwise fallback onto the following method.

Build manually & install

Usage

    wez
    wez news.ycombinator.com
    wez --dump https://example.com

Screenshot

Config

these files are auto created on first start.

• config: ~/.config/wez/config.toml
• keymap: ~/.config/wez/keymap.toml
• cache: ~/.cache/wez/

the config and keymap files are self-documentating, if not, let me know.

License

Apache-2.0.