Uzbl – Web Interface Tools Which Adhere to the Unix Philosophy

It's mind-boggling how many applications don't include screenshots, especially considering how easy it is to take and upload them. Even if the given application is CLI-based, I want to know how it looks like to quickly make sense of how it operates!

Imagine a web browser without visible user interface apart from the content. Just like vi is to other text editors.

From what I gathered, it's basically a socket command interface to Webkit. So you can create things that manipulate webpages. The portion you would see wouldn't be provided by uzbl.

Edit:

> There's no "uzbl" command, that's just the name for the whole collection of tools. The command you're looking for is uzbl-browser or uzbl-tabbed.

> The central program uzbl-core doesn't do many useful things by itself, it's meant for integration with other tools and scripts. See README.

> Once you've got uzbl-browser or uzbl-tabbed running, the first thing to do is look at the keybindings. The second thing to do is explore the default configuration (~/.config/uzbl/config).

I think people just find moderately interesting things online and post them on HN to maybe revitalise them and give them some exposure, or, pessimistically speaking, just in hopes to get some upvotes.

There's another similar project brewing in suckless universe: https://surf.suckless.org/ I haven't tried that one. I've used UZBL a lot some years ago and it was awesome.

there are others in the same vein my fave and close is probably https://luakit.github.io/.