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Package: surfraw (2.3.0-0.3)

fast unix command line interface to WWW

Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the World Wide Web

Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell.

Surfraw abstracts the browser away from input. Doing so lets it get on with what it's good at. Browsing. Interpretation of linguistic forms is handed back to the shell, which is what it, and human beings are good at. Combined with incremental text browsers, such as links, w3m (or even lynx), and screen(1), or netscape-remote a Surfraw liberateur is capable of research speeds that leave GUI tainted idolaters agape with fear and wonder.

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  • rec: curl
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    or wget
    retrieves files from the web
    or libwww-perl
    simple and consistent interface to the world-wide web
  • rec: links
    Web browser running in text mode
    or elinks
    advanced text-mode WWW browser
    or elinks-lite
    Package not available
    or w3m
    WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
  • rec: surfraw-extra (>> 2.2.7-1)
    extra surfraw search tools with heavy dependencies
  • sug: screen
    terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

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