Running a web browser within a terminal 🌐

I stumbled across an interesting project on GitHub recently – Carbonyl is a Chromium based web browser that is built to run in a terminal!

It can be run either via npm or Docker. I opted to take Carbonyl for a spin using Docker (I run Docker Desktop on my Windows 11 machine). It was super-simple to run using the following command from a terminal.

docker run --rm -ti fathyb/carbonyl (URL to access)

I used the following command to access this blog:

docker run --rm -ti fathyb/carbonyl https://brendg.co.uk

Below, you can see a short video of this in action!

Once finished, hit CTRL+C, which will exit the container and remove it from Docker.

I have zero use-case for this; however, it is a lot of fun 😀.