Lynx Browser

Lynx Browser

Google's Webmaster Guidelines say,

Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.

I've already written a Lynx Browser tutorial as well as devoting an entire section of this Web site to Lynx, but here is a quick reference:

Get the text from a Web page as well as a list of links

lynx -dump "http://www.example.com/"

Get the source code from a Web page with Lynx

lynx -source "http://www.example.com/"

Get the response headers with Lynx

lynx -dump -head "http://www.example.com/"