https://github.com/ELLIOTTCABLE/pin-cushion

Simple, maintained CLI interface to the Pinboard.in API.
https://github.com/ELLIOTTCABLE/pin-cushion

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Simple, maintained CLI interface to the Pinboard.in API.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ELLIOTTCABLE/pin-cushion
• Owner: ELLIOTTCABLE
• License: isc
• Created: 2016-01-15T00:13:47.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: Master
• Last Pushed: 2018-02-22T09:12:46.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-15T00:25:01.295Z (8 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 11.7 KB
• Stars: 126
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.markdown
  • License: COPYING.text

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README

        
`pin-cushion` 

=============

A simple command-line [Pinboard.in][] client:

    pin-cushion [verb] [arguments]

    pin-cushion posts/recent

    pin-cushion posts/suggest --url "http://www.ponylang.org"

    pb-rename() {

       pin-cushion tags/rename --old "$1" --new "$2"

    }

You get the idea. To use it, you must first record [your authentication token][auth] for the API:

    npm install -g pin-cushion

    pin-cushion --auth elliottcable:DEADBEEF1234567890

This only provides abstracted access to the Pinboard API as defined on their site:

> ### 

Any Pinboard API method described there may be passed as the `verb`; and all described arguments are

accepted as command-line `flags`. These are not stored in this library; as your command-line

instructions are simply converted directly to API calls; so this tool probably doesn't need much in

the form of maintenance. `:P`

   [Pinboard.in]: 

### Piping and JSON output

If not explicitly passed a `--format` parameter, then `pin-cushion` will spit out a formatted

object-description of the response, intended for human consumption. If a format is explicitly

provided, then the response from the server will be printed, unmodified; this is particularly useful

with the [`jq`](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) command-line JSON manipulation tool:

    pin-cushion posts/recent --format=json | jq                      # Simply pretty-print

    pin-cushion posts/recent --format=json | jq '.posts[] | .href'   # Extract URLs of recent pins

This obviously lends itself to constructing complex shell pipes. Personally, I suggest aliasing

this:

    pc() { pin-cushion "$1" --format=json "$@" ;}