w3m

W3M(1)                      General Commands Manual                     W3M(1)

NAME
       w3m - a text based web browser and pager

SYNOPSIS
       w3m [OPTION]... [ file | URL ]...

DESCRIPTION
       w3m is a text based browser which can display local or remote web pages
       as well as other documents. It is  able  to  process  HTML  tables  and
       frames  but  it  ignores JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets. w3m can
       also serve as a pager for text files named as arguments  or  passed  on
       standard input, and as a general purpose directory browser.

       w3m  organizes its content in buffers or tabs, allowing easy navigation
       between them. With the w3m-img extension installed, w3m can display in-
       line graphics in web pages. And whenever w3m's HTML rendering capabili-
       ties do not meet your needs, the target URL can be  handed  over  to  a
       graphical browser with a single command.

       For help with runtime options, press "H" while running w3m.

ARGUMENTS
       When  given one or more command line arguments, w3m will handle targets
       according to content type. For web, w3m gets this information from HTTP
       headers; for relative or absolute file system paths, it relies on file-
       names.

       With no argument, w3m expects data  from  standard  input  and  assumes
       "text/plain" unless another MIME type is given by the user.

       If provided with no target and no fallback target (see for instance op-
       tion -v below), w3m will exit with usage information.

OPTIONS
       Command line options are introduced with a single "-" character and may
       take an argument.

   General options
       -B     with no other target defined, use the bookmark page for startup

       -M     monochrome display

       -no-mouse
              deactivate mouse support

       -num   display each line's number

       -N     distribute  multiple command line arguments to tabs. By default,
              a stack of buffers is used

       -ppc num
              width of num pixels per character. Range of 4.0 to 32.0, default
              8.0.   Larger  values will make tables narrower. (Implementation
              not verified)

       -ppl num
              height of num pixels per line. Range of 4.0 to 64.0.  (Implemen-
              tation not verified)

       -title, -title=TERM
              use  the  buffer  name  as terminal title string. With specified
              TERM, this sets the title configuration style accordingly

       -v     with no other target defined, welcome users with a built-in page

       -W     toggle wrapping mode in searches

       -X     do not initialize/deinitialize the terminal

       +num   go to line num; only effective for num larger than the number of
              lines in the terminal

   Browser options
       -cols num
              with  stdout  as  destination;  HTML is rendered to lines of num
              characters

       -cookie, -no-cookie
              use stored cookies and accept new ones, or do neither

       -F     render frames

       -graph, -no-graph
              use or do not use graphic characters for drawing HTML table  and
              frame borders

       -header string
              append  string  to  the  HTTP(S)  request. Expected to match the
              header syntax Variable: Value

       -m     Render the body of Usenet messages according to the header "Con-
              tent-type"

       -no-proxy
              do not use proxy

       -post file
              use POST method to upload data defined in file. The syntax to be
              used is var1=value1[&var2=value2]...

       -4     IPv4 only. Corresponds to dns_order=4 in configuration files

       -6     IPv6 only. Corresponds to dns_order=6 in configuration files

   Text pager options
       -l num number of lines preserved internally when receiving  plain  text
              from stdin (default 10,000)

       -r     use caret notation to display special escape characters (such as
              ANSI escapes or nroff-style backspaces for bold  and  underlined
              characters) instead of processing them

       -s     squeeze multiple blank lines into one

       -t num set tab width to num columns. No effect on stdout

   Data type/encoding options
       -I charset
              user defined character encoding of input data

       -O charset
              user defined character encoding of output data

       -T type
              explicit characterization of input data by MIME type

   Options for data output, followed by immediate exit
       -dump  dump  rendered  page  into stdout. Set implicitly when output is
              directed to a file or pipe

       -dump_source
              dump the page's source code into stdout

       -dump_head
              dump response of a HEAD request for a URL into stdout

       -dump_both
              dump HEAD, and source code for a URL into stdout

       -dump_extra
              dump HEAD, source code, and extra information  for  a  URL  into
              stdout

       -help  show a summary of compiled-in features and command line options

       -show-option
              show all available configuration options

       -version
              show the version of w3m

   Options for overriding default settings and resources
       -bookmark file
              use file instead of the default bookmark.html file

       -config file
              use file instead of the default configuration file

       -debug DO NOT USE

       -o option=value
              modify  one  configuration  item with an explicitly given value;
              without option=value, equivalent to -show-option

       -reqlog
              log headers of HTTP communication in file ~/.w3m/request.log

EXAMPLES
   Pager-like usage
       Combine snippets of HTML code and preview the page
              $ cat header.html footer.html | w3m -T text/html

       Compare two files using tabs
              $ w3m -N config.old config

   Browser-like usage
       Display web content in monochrome terminal
              $ w3m -M http://w3m.sourceforge.net

       Display embedded graphics
              $ w3m -o auto_image=TRUE http://w3m.sourceforge.net

       Display content from Usenet
              $ w3m -m nntp://news.aioe.org/comp.os.linux.networking

       Upload data for a URL using the POST method
              $ w3m -post - http://example.com/form.php <<<'a=0&b=1'

   Filter-like usage
       Convert an HTML file to plain text with a defined line length
              $ w3m -cols 40 foo.html > foo.txt

       Output the bookmarks page as text with an appended list of links
              $ w3m -B -o display_link_number=1 > out.txt

       Conversion of file format and character encoding
              $ w3m -T text/html -I EUC-JP -O UTF-8 < foo.html > foo.txt

   Start with no input
       Welcome users with a built-in page
              $ w3m -v

ENVIRONMENT
       w3m recognises the environment variable WWW_HOME as defining a fallback
       target for use if it is invoked without one.

FILES
       ~/.w3m/bookmark.html
              default bookmark file

       ~/.w3m/config
              user defined configuration file; overrides /etc/w3m/config

       ~/.w3m/cookie
              cookie jar; written on exit, read on launch

       ~/.w3m/history
              browser history - visited files and URLs

       ~/.w3m/keymap
              user defined key bindings; overrides default key bindings

       ~/.w3m/mailcap
              external viewer configuration file

       ~/.w3m/menu
              user defined menu; overrides default menu

       ~/.w3m/mime.types
              MIME types file

       ~/.w3m/mouse
              user defined mouse settings

       ~/.w3m/passwd
              password and username file

       ~/.w3m/pre_form
              contains predefined values to fill recurrent HTML forms

SEE ALSO
       README  and  example files are to be found in the doc directory of your
       w3m installation. Recent information about w3m  may  be  found  on  the
       project's web pages at <http://w3m.sourceforge.net>

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
       w3m has incorporated code from several sources.  Users have contributed
       patches and suggestions over time.

AUTHOR
       Akinori ITO <aito@fw.ipsj.or.jp>

w3m 0.5.3                         2016-08-06                            W3M(1)