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Lynx is still valuable even if one doesn't use it to browse the web.

It's been a while but when large sites would every so often alter their link landscape, via pruning or renaming, Lynx was a useful tool when looking for similar pages that may not be displayed by search engines with the given query parameters, (non matching name,) and more often it was Lynx I'd use as it was quick to dump most of the links to search though later on if I needed to rather than deploy wget's spider mode

lynx -dump -listonly -nonumbers http://foobar.com/ >foobar.txt



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