/hnget

A commandline program for browsing Hacker News

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

hnget - Hacker News web scraper

A commandline program for browsing Hacker News.

Hnget Screenshot

Usage

hnget --fetch (--f)

Print the top 30 posts on Hacker News, enumerated. --fetch takes an optional integer value to specify different pages of the results.

hnget --open (--o) [NUMS...]

Open stories in default web browser. Multiple values are accepted. Default web browser can be set with $BROWSER.

hnget --comments (--o) [NUMS...]

Like --open, but view the comment page(s) instead.

hnget --fetch --best

View the top posts for the week instead of the current front page.

Installation

With Pypi:

$ pip install hnget

Manually:

$ git clone https://github.com/jsbmg/hnget

$ cd hnget

$ pip install . pyproject.toml