Chawan

chawan

A web browser for your terminal.

Runs as cha|macOS, Linux, Windows|chawan.net

Open form in Otty otty.toml

Command form

ai-draft · 2 tasks · 8 fields

Open URLs or files in Chawan, or dump them to stdout. Configuration overrides (-o), JavaScript (-r) and stylesheet injection are left out.

Opens the form; the finished command lands at your prompt, unrun

Run in Otty

otty gui chawan

Open pageExample values, fixed in this page — nothing here reaches a terminal

Basic

URLs or files*

string

Monochrome

--monochrome

TasksEach one presets the form for one job

Browse

targetsmonochrome

Dump a page as text

targetstypeinput_charset

ParametersOnly these flags are editable in the form

URLs or files

string · positional 0 · repeatable

Dump to stdout

Headless mode: print the opened documents instead of browsing.
boolean

--dump-d

Monochrome

boolean

--monochrome-M

Open visual home

boolean

--visual-V

Config file

path

--config-C

Content type

For example text/html, when it cannot be guessed from the file name.
string

--type-Ttext/htmltext/plain

Input charset

string

--input-charset-I

Output charset

string

--output-charset-O

SourcesEvery flag above is checked against these

man

cha [options] [URL(s) or file(s)...] -d, --dump Start in headless mode, and sequentially print the opened files to stdout. -C, --config file Override the default configuration search path. -I, --input-charset charset Override the character set of all input files. -M, --monochrome Force monochrome output. -O, --output-charset charset Override the output…

manual0.5.1-1

manpages.debian.org

Before it fills your prompt, Otty checks the installed cha against its version. A form that does not match your version is not offered.