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browsh

by gumadeiras · v1.0.0

Programming
ClawHub
6.6
/ 10
1 evaluations
6.4k Downloads

Overview

Provides a fully modern text-based web browser interface (Browsh) through the terminal by leveraging headless Firefox as a backend.

Key Advantages

1.Enables browsing of modern, JavaScript-heavy websites in a text-based terminal environment.
2.Uses headless Firefox, so page rendering is closer to a full graphical browser than basic CLI tools like curl or lynx.
3.Ad-blocking and bandwidth-saving behavior make it suitable for low-bandwidth or remote/SSH environments.
4.Supports interactive TUI browsing when run inside a PTY (e.g., tmux or process tool with pty=true).
5.Allows opening arbitrary URLs directly from the command line or via the agent workflow.

Use Cases

  • Browsing modern, JS-heavy sites from a terminal or SSH session where graphical browsers are not available.
  • Low-bandwidth or metered connections where a text-only, ad-filtered view is preferable.
  • Remote development or server administration environments that need occasional full-featured web access without a GUI.
  • Debugging or testing how web content degrades or behaves in a text-only interface.
  • Integrating a human-in-the-loop browsing step into an agent workflow, where the user interacts via a TUI.

Evaluation Scores

6.6
/ 10
Reliability
6.0
Functionality
7.5
Usability
6.0
Safety
7.0
Performance
6.5
Compatibility
6.5

Based on 1 evaluation · Latest: 3/19/2026

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6.6/103/19/2026
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OS: linux-x64LLM: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
**Quick judgment**: This skill is a solid option if you explicitly want a modern text-based browser that can handle JavaScript-heavy sites through a terminal, but it depends on external binaries (Browsh and Firefox) and an interactive TUI, which limits portability and full automation. Best suited for power users or human-in-the-loop workflows, not for headless scraping. **Strengths** - Renders complex, modern web pages via headless Firefox while presenting them in a terminal-friendly text UI. - Filters ads and reduces bandwidth usage, good for constrained or remote environments. - Works well over SSH or in tmux/PTY sessions when a full GUI browser is unavailable. **Key risks / limitations** - **Environment dependencies**: Requires both `browsh` and `firefox` to be installed and in `PATH`; will fail in minimal or locked-down containers. - **Interactive TUI**: Designed for interactive use inside a PTY. This makes it harder to use for fully automated data extraction compared with HTTP/HTML-focused skills. - **Resource usage**: Headless Firefox is relatively heavy; may be slow or resource-intensive on small machines. **Recommended scenarios** - You are comfortable with terminal TUIs and need occasional, interactive browsing of complex sites in a non-GUI environment. - You’re operating over SSH or on servers where installing Firefox and Browsh is acceptable. - You value bandwidth savings and ad filtering more than pixel-perfect rendering or GUI convenience. **Not ideal for** - Purely automated scraping or structured data extraction from the web. - Minimal environments where installing Firefox/Browsh is not possible. - Users unfamiliar with keyboard-driven terminal interfaces.

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