Feature request: Export to plain text file

[pachpict]

Proposal

Would it be possible to export the output od the terminal display to a plain text file?

Example: If I open a 80x20 terminal window and run brow.sh enter monotone mode ([alt]+m) and open bbc.co.uk and hit the export key ([ctrl]+p?) it would create a file (./2023-09-27-1908-bbc.co.uk.txt?) which was 80 characters wide and as many lines long as needed.

Would that be relatively simple to do by using an existing library?

Context

I am integrating brow.sh into a multiline refreshable Braille display (Canute Console).

It would be a great benefit for blind developers, we hope, to get a spacial layout of a web page. As it stands brow.sh is not quite suitable for browsing on the Canute Braille display. There are some changes to navigation and interaction in brow.sh that I will be looking into and hopefully can propose them or submit code. But, meanwhile, exporting to plain text would be comparatively simpler and come with major benefits for Braille readers.

[tombh]

This is actually already possible with "server mode": https://www.brow.sh/docs/in-browser-usage/

Usage example: curl --header "X-Browsh-Raw-Mode: PLAIN" localhost:4333/https://google.com

[11100010]

it would be great if it had a flag like --dump to get the text-only output

[pachpict]

Hi there @tombh, thanks for the suggestion. I tried your example and got the source code for sites. What I was referring to was getting a snapshot of the ascii output the browsh writes to the terminal window and saving that as a plain text file. For example if I open browsh oin xfce4-terminal there is an xfce4-terminal option to 'Save Contents' to a txt file. Of course it only captures the lines on the screen and doesn't handle the images very well, but that's the kind of thing I'm thinking about.

[tombh]

What about https://asciinema.org? Or the underlying it technology it uses?