daily-hn 0.1.2

A command line tool for displaying and opening links to the current best stories from news.ycombinator.com (Hacker News)

daily_hn

Description

A command line tool for displaying and opening links to the current best stories from news.ycombinator.com (Hacker News).

You can find the best stories page this program parses here!

Dependencies

• Python v3.9+
• Beautiful Soup 4
• Requests
• If you are on Windows: Windows curses module (Python)

Installation

To download, click on 'Code' to the top right, then download as a zip file. You can unzip using your preferred program.

You can also clone the repository using:

git clone https://github.com/Rolv-Apneseth/daily_hn.git

Next, install the requirements for the program.

In your terminal, navigate to the cloned directory and run:

python3 -m pip install requests beautifulsoup4

Then, to place the daily_hn script at /usr/local/daily_hn:

sudo make install

Now, to launch the program in your terminal simply run daily_hn

Windows

Install the requirements for the program.

In your terminal, navigate to the cloned directory and run:

pip install beautifulsoup4 requests windows-curses

To launch the program, navigate to the project directory and run:

python daily_hn.py

Usage

With the curses UI (default), you can open up stories (uses the default browser) by pressing the shortcut key to the left of that story. Navigate up and down using either j and k for fine movements or { and } for bigger jumps. To quit, press q.

To simply print out a list of stories (links being clickable depends on your terminal emulator), provide the -p flag

License

MIT