How to pipe html into lynx?

pipe curl html stdin lynx

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curl www.google.de | lynx -stdin

as man lynx shows:

-stdin read the startfile from standard input (UNIX only).

As an alternative you could also ditch lynx and use pub instead, as pointed out here

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k0pernikus

I am Philipp Kretzschmar, a backend developer from Hamburg working at Demvsystem. You can find me on github. Or twitter. My main weapons of choice are: php TypeScript (I don't want to write plain JavaScript anymore) and nodejs I play around with: Java python rust I used to write some scala, but for now I don't want to go there anymore. I feel most comfortable on a unix-like system featuring a powerful bash. (This excludes MacOS.) I love to code within JetBrains's flavored IDEs, e.g. IntelliJ, PhpStorm, WebStorm and using the IdeaVim plugin and having a docker-compose stack to develop on.

Updated on September 18, 2022

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k0pernikus over 1 year
I am testing some ajax call from the console. I like get rid of the meta-information noise that is html markup and just read the content, hence I like to pipe it into a terminal browser, e.g. lynx.

Yet:
```
curl www.google.de | lynx
```
just opens a new instance of lynx.

I don't want to:
```
curl www.google.de > someFile.html && lynx someFile.html
```