A full terminal web browser is a bit more than I was looking for, but this is definitely an option. Was thinking more something I could pipe text into to get an extraction and/or a simpler pager interface.

The browsh repo front page is just insanely impressive[0]. `links` is impossible to query the web for the project, so if you had more guidance on that one, it would be appreciated.

[0] https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh

Edit: Noted I was querying for something more feature anemic, plus Browsh link

Well if you don't find anything, I wonder how easy it would be to adapt my DocBook XML reader to do HTML (sans any sort of script, dynamic content, or remote content). It's pretty much as you describe, little more than a pager for stuff that one can pipe into it, or files named on the command line. I pretty much aimed at just under pg(1) for DocBook XML.

* http://jdebp.info/Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/console-docb...

http://links.twibright.com is the website, but the easiest way to try it is probably to search your preferred package manager.