web-less

A budget readability web parser-reader that works from the command line.

In other words, a ghetto Mercury Reader or a Reader View for the terminal users.

How to install

web-less is a standard npm module that can be found found here.

To install on your system

1. Login as root su

2. Install web-less npm install -g web-less

Usage

Simply open a webpage as a PDF

web-less https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

Save Webpage or PDF

web-less --mode save https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html > file.pdf

web-less --m webpage https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html > file.html

Input Webpage from a file

web-less -input file.html

Input Webpage from STDIN

curl 'https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html' | web-less -i -