I would like to access a website using Firefox in Ubuntu from the terminal. I must do this without opening a Firefox window because my computer has no screen.
How can I do this?
Note: I am running an external program to capture Firefox traffic.
Access the Internet from a Command Line
If you are trying to access websites in the form of text, inside of a terminal, then I suggest you look into text-mode web browsers. Here are a list of a few popular ones:
ELinks: ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts. It is quite portable and runs on a variety of platforms.
Lynx: Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100 terminals, vt100 emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other character-cell display).
W3M: w3m is a text-based web browser as well as a pager like
more' orless'. With w3m you can browse web pages through a terminal emulator window (xterm, rxvt or something like that). Moreover, w3m can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into plain text.
Read more into these options below:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/29540/browsing-the-internet-from-the-command-line
Check out a cli web browser! https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications/Internet#Console
If you want to automate/script your procedure, Beautiful Soup may be of use depending on what you are trying to do.
Best of luck!
Xvfb.