# browsh-org/browsh

A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers

Repository: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/browsh
Homepage: https://www.brow.sh
Language: JavaScript
License: LGPL-2.1
License Family: copyleft
Topics: tty, ssh, mosh, bandwidth-saver, http-performance, vnc
Last push: 2025-07-11T16:33:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 37/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 31, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3769, "days_push": 418, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 19005, forks 482 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:27.337215+00:00)

## What it is
Browsh is a fully-modern text-based browser that renders real web pages (HTML5, CSS3, JS, video, WebGL) as text and basic graphics in a terminal or another browser. It works by driving a headless Firefox on a remote server and streaming a lightweight text representation to the client over SSH or Mosh.

## Use cases
- browse the modern web over a very slow or expensive connection
- render JavaScript-heavy pages in a terminal like elinks but with full HTML5 support
- offload browser CPU and battery drain from a low-powered device like a Raspberry Pi
- use Mosh with a text browser for stable browsing on flaky mobile connections
- fetch lightweight text versions of pages with curl via text.brow.sh
- browse the web over SSH from a machine with poor internet

## When to choose
- you need modern web rendering (JS, HTML5) in a text-based terminal browser
- you have extremely limited bandwidth and want a server to do the heavy downloading
- you want to reduce battery/CPU usage on a low-powered client device
- you prefer a CLI-native workflow but still need full web compatibility

## When to avoid
- you need a fully interactive graphical browsing experience with images and rich media locally
- you cannot install Firefox on the server or client machine
- you need the in-browser client to be real-time and interactive, as it lacks feature parity with the TTY client
- you need a lightweight text browser without a Firefox dependency

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: http-client, cli, proxy
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, privacy
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform
- tags: text-based-browser, headless-firefox, bandwidth-saving, ssh, mosh, tty, terminal, command-line, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- browsh-org/browsh (main) score 37

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:27.337215+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:00:42.367294+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:27.337215+00:00, sha 86254955a4de)
  - homepage: https://www.brow.sh (fetched 2026-08-29T07:59:18.449925+00:00, sha c474f9512550)
  - site_page: https://www.brow.sh/docs/introduction (fetched 2026-08-29T07:59:18.459627+00:00, sha e1fe4e845909)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.