/rustynews

A rust command line utility to browse Hacker News

Primary LanguageRust

Command line hacker news written in rust

Very minimal (literally 80 lines of code). Very scrappy. I wrote it so that I can display top hacker news articles in Conky

Installation

cargo install rustynews and wait till the dependencies compile.

Usage

USAGE:
    rustynews [FLAGS] <num>

FLAGS:
    -b, --by          Display username
    -h, --help        Prints help information
    -p, --progress    Show progress bar while posts are being fetched
    -s, --score       Display score
    -u, --url         Display URL
    -V, --version     Prints version information

ARGS:
    <num>    The number of top posts to be retrieved

Here's a proof of concept screenshot of my ugly conky configuration using rustynews: