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Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages


Spegel is a proof-of-concept terminal web browser that feeds HTML through an LLM before serving it as markdown in the terminal.

Then, a few days later, Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro Lite, significantly faster inference speed, suddenly my little weekend hack became a tad more practical. Adapting content to suit individual needs isn’t a new idea, think about translating books or summarising lengthy articles. Spegel fetches HTML content, processes it through an LLM using prompts stored in a config file (~/.spegel.toml), and outputs markdown rendered via Textual.

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