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  inline graphics in web pages. And whenever w3m's HTML rendering
       capabilities 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 filenames.

       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 option -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. (Implementation 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 “Content-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⟩