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| Leave a comment with the name of an application (or multiple) that replaces a function typically done with a modern web browser. | |
| I.E. an application that allows YouTube to be watched without a browser. |
Plowshare/plowdown for downloading from sites like rapidshare/zippyshare, etc.
Weboob for banking/etc? (I'm going to try to write a module for my usbank online banking, wish me luck.)
Yubnub and/or surfraw for launching those text based browsers.
Rclone for downloading stuff from web storage.
Youtube-dl and get-flash-videos for videos.
Aria2 for downloading torrents/magnet-links, axel for big single files over multiple http connections.
Firefox's Reader View is a JS lib, I wrote a tiny wrapper which can be used to clean up pages and view e.g. in lynx which has a -stdin option.
ddgr for DuckDuckGo.
To dispatch which application to open which URL, I developed a teeny application called browser to integrate with my newsboat / mpv / w3m workflow.
library for browsing media from different sites at the same time
I'll start it off, Mutt as an email client (haven't tried it myself yet)