Is there anything like this web browser in the debian/ubuntu repositories

browsersoftware-recweb

It's been a while since my web-browsing has really suited me.

What I would really like is:

A javascript-enabled web browser with a tab-based browsing system that can be controlled simultaneously using a console and a GUI.

For example, I'd like to be able to…

1) open a bunch of tabs

2) go to the console and tell it something like 'copy the url open in each tab and write it, along with the html, to a file, for each open tab'

in other words, I want to be able to browse with tabs at my leisure, and then write scripts that iterate over each tab. Does anything like that exist?

Best Answer

I would suggest that uzbl is just the right ninja magic for this. It is a scriptable, console-controllable single-purpose browser. Being based on webkit, its rendering and javascript support is first class, but it follows the unix phylosophy of doing one thing and doing it well while allowing other programs to push data in and out.

There is a wrapper for it that adds support for a tab-like interface as well.

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