lurker

Hacker News terminal client

Overview

Lurker is a simple terminal client for reading Hacker News, written entirely in bash.

Documentation

Please visit the documentation site for full documentation.

Install

Install with Homebrew:

brew install wcarhart/tools/lurker

Or, download or clone this repository and run:

./lurker

Examples

Read Hacker News headlines...

Read comments for a specific post...

Available commands

> help
Available commands:
  help        - show this help menu
  read <ID>   - open the comment thread for post ID
  open <ID>   - open the URL for the post ID in your default browser (only available on macOS)
  copy <ID>   - copy the URL for the post ID to the clipboard (only available on macOS)
  hack <ID>   - open the Hacker News link for the post ID in your default browser (only available on macOS)
  smoosh <ID> - summarize (smoosh) the content from the URL for post ID (only available on macOS)
  user <ID>   - show info for user ID
  <ID>        - get info for post ID
  more        - show the next 10 posts (up to 500)
  less        - show the previous 10 posts
  back        - show the previous list of posts again
  refresh     - refresh the master post list, which will reset the ordering of posts
  clear       - clear the screen
  exit        - quit lurker

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