{"id":13794442,"url":"https://github.com/wcarhart/lurker","last_synced_at":"2025-05-12T21:31:22.746Z","repository":{"id":56595477,"uuid":"196487385","full_name":"wcarhart/lurker","owner":"wcarhart","description":"Hacker News terminal client","archived":false,"fork":false,"pushed_at":"2020-10-29T17:07:03.000Z","size":66,"stargazers_count":6,"open_issues_count":1,"forks_count":0,"subscribers_count":1,"default_branch":"master","last_synced_at":"2025-05-07T20:42:29.422Z","etag":null,"topics":["bash","cli","hacker-news","ycombinator"],"latest_commit_sha":null,"homepage":null,"language":"Shell","has_issues":true,"has_wiki":null,"has_pages":null,"mirror_url":null,"source_name":null,"license":"mit","status":null,"scm":"git","pull_requests_enabled":true,"icon_url":"https://github.com/wcarhart.png","metadata":{"files":{"readme":"README.md","changelog":null,"contributing":null,"funding":null,"license":"LICENSE","code_of_conduct":null,"threat_model":null,"audit":null,"citation":null,"codeowners":null,"security":null,"support":null}},"created_at":"2019-07-12T01:27:52.000Z","updated_at":"2022-01-11T09:52:11.000Z","dependencies_parsed_at":"2022-08-15T21:40:18.460Z","dependency_job_id":null,"html_url":"https://github.com/wcarhart/lurker","commit_stats":null,"previous_names":[],"tags_count":10,"template":false,"template_full_name":null,"repository_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/wcarhart%2Flurker","tags_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/wcarhart%2Flurker/tags","releases_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/wcarhart%2Flurker/releases","manifests_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/wcarhart%2Flurker/manifests","owner_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners/wcarhart","download_url":"https://codeload.github.com/wcarhart/lurker/tar.gz/refs/heads/master","host":{"name":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com","kind":"github","repositories_count":253825068,"owners_count":21970123,"icon_url":"https://github.com/github.png","version":null,"created_at":"2022-05-30T11:31:42.601Z","updated_at":"2022-07-04T15:15:14.044Z","host_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub","repositories_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories","repository_names_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repository_names","owners_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners"}},"keywords":["bash","cli","hacker-news","ycombinator"],"created_at":"2024-08-03T23:00:40.956Z","updated_at":"2025-05-12T21:31:22.495Z","avatar_url":"https://github.com/wcarhart.png","language":"Shell","funding_links":[],"categories":["Clients"],"sub_categories":["CLI \u0026 TUI"],"readme":"\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"lurker logo\" src=\"logo.png\" /\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 align=\"center\"\u003elurker\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003ch5 align=\"center\"\u003eHacker News terminal client\u003c/h5\u003e\n\n### Overview\nLurker is a simple terminal client for reading [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/), written entirely in bash.\n\n### Documentation\nPlease visit the [documentation site](https://willcarhart.dev/docs/lurker) for full documentation.\n\n### Install\nInstall with [Homebrew](https://brew.sh):\n```bash\nbrew install wcarhart/tools/lurker\n```\n\nOr, download or clone this repository and run:\n```bash\n./lurker\n```\n\n### Examples\nRead Hacker News headlines...\n\n![lurker demo 1](https://i.imgur.com/v6kNmTb.png)\n\nRead comments for a specific post...\n\n![lurker demo 2](https://i.imgur.com/n68f059.png)\n\n### Available commands\n```\n\u003e help\nAvailable commands:\n  help        - show this help menu\n  read \u003cID\u003e   - open the comment thread for post ID\n  open \u003cID\u003e   - open the URL for the post ID in your default browser (only available on macOS)\n  copy \u003cID\u003e   - copy the URL for the post ID to the clipboard (only available on macOS)\n  hack \u003cID\u003e   - open the Hacker News link for the post ID in your default browser (only available on macOS)\n  smoosh \u003cID\u003e - summarize (smoosh) the content from the URL for post ID (only available on macOS)\n  user \u003cID\u003e   - show info for user ID\n  \u003cID\u003e        - get info for post ID\n  more        - show the next 10 posts (up to 500)\n  less        - show the previous 10 posts\n  back        - show the previous list of posts again\n  refresh     - refresh the master post list, which will reset the ordering of posts\n  clear       - clear the screen\n  exit        - quit lurker\n```\nLearn more about [smoosh](https://github.com/wcarhart/smoosh).\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fwcarhart%2Flurker","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fwcarhart%2Flurker","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fwcarhart%2Flurker/lists"}