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Old 12-25-2003
Which comand to show the source code on a web page?
Hi folks!

I am using MacOsX that runs freeBSD. Could you tell me what comand to type on the Unix Terminal to display on the terminal the source code of a certain web page?

I think something like

#<comand> http://www.apple.com

will display on the terminal's window the html source code of apple's page.

Thanks!


Bernardo Höhl -- Rio de Janeiro
# 2  
Old 12-25-2003
if you have the utility 'wget' you can download pages that way, via the command line.
# 3  
Old 12-25-2003
Quote:
Originally posted by norsk hedensk
if you have the utility 'wget' you can download pages that way, via the command line.
WGET will not display a web page in a terminal window, it simply downloads the pages.

Quote:
GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the
Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval
through HTTP proxies.

Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the background, while
the user is not logged on. This allows you to start a retrieval and dis-
connect from the system, letting Wget finish the work. By contrast, most
of the Web browsers require constant user's presence, which can be a great
hindrance when transferring a lot of data.

Wget can follow links in HTML pages and create local versions of remote
web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the original site.
This is sometimes referred to as ``recursive downloading.'' While doing
that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard (/robots.txt). Wget can
be instructed to convert the links in downloaded HTML files to the local
files for offline viewing.

Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network con-
nections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will keep
retrying until the whole file has been retrieved. If the server supports
regetting, it will instruct the server to continue the download from where
it left off.
Neo
# 4  
Old 12-25-2003
Try Lynx
http://lynx.browser.org/

Quote:
Lynx is a text browser for the World Wide Web. Lynx 2.8.3 runs on Un*x, VMS, Windows 95/98/NT but not 3.1 or 3.11, on DOS (386 or higher) and OS/2 EMX. The current developmental version is also available for testing. Ports to Mac are in beta test.
Neo
# 5  
Old 12-25-2003
neo is right. i was thinking more along the lines of:
Code:
wget http://somepage.com/index.html && cat index.html

# 6  
Old 12-25-2003
Code:
wget http://somepage.com/index.html && cat index.html

....will display the HTML source of the page, not the actually page in text Smilie You still need a browser to convert the HTML to web-text if you want to see the actually text.

Then again, maybe the original poster really only wants to see the source.....

Neo
# 7  
Old 12-25-2003
haha yeah
Quote:
to display on the terminal the source code of a certain web page?
thats what i thought Smilie
 
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