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I haven't looked too deeply into the lynx codebase, but it might be tricky to do this without extra dependencies. Lynx already parses html obviously, but I don't know if it ever needs to make modifications to it.

Now, it would be great if there was a way to pipe the html from a webpage into another tool from inside lynx. Maybe that exists already and I'm just not aware of it.

> Now, it would be great if there was a way to pipe the html from a webpage into another tool from inside lynx.

For future reference, it appears that this can be done with elinks.

I really hope it happens!

lynx has —dump which prints a rendered page to stdout.

Likewise `elinks -dump` if you prefer elinks.

The motivation for rdrview is cleaning up all the menus and clutter from the dump. It still uses lynx (or any other text browser) for the render.