https://github.com/andrewstuart/hn

A hackernews ncurses CLI written in GO
https://github.com/andrewstuart/hn

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A hackernews ncurses CLI written in GO

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/andrewstuart/hn
• Owner: andrewstuart
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-05-11T04:38:23.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-03-17T16:13:37.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T03:59:43.800Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Go
• Size: 637 KB
• Stars: 274
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 17
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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• awesome-hacker-news - Hacker News ncurses CLI

README

        
## About

A Hacker News ncurses CLI reader written in Go. Currently known to work on Linux, and a few people have gotten it to work on OSX.

Right now it's able to view articles, view comments, and open a page in your default browser, all done directly from the site using goquery (jquery-like library for Go), goncurses, and xdg-open for opening pages.

![Story view](https://raw.github.com/andrewstuart/hn/master/readme/stories.png)

![Comment view](https://raw.github.com/andrewstuart/hn/master/readme/comments.png)

## Installation

Assuming you have your GOPATH and PATH set appropriately:

Unfortunately, you'll also need mercurial installed, for packages hosted at code.google.com.  If you're working with Go, you've probably already done that.

```bash

go get github.com/andrewstuart/hn

```

## Usage

```bash

$ hn

```

### Story view

- n) Go to next page

- p) Go to previous page

- (num)c) View comments for story (num)

- (num)o) Open story (num) in default browser

- q) Quit hn

### Comments view

- d) Go down 30 lines

- u) Go up 30 lines

- j) Go down 1 line

- k) Go up 1 line

- n) Go down 1 page

- p) Go up 1 page

- q) Go back to story view

## API (unfinished/deprecated/idk)

This basically only works for page 1 in its current state, IIRC.

```bash

$ hn -s -p 3000 & 

$ curl localhost:3000

```