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:newspaper: CLI to browse Hacker News

License: MIT License

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hn-cli

CLI to browse Hacker News

Install

$ npm install -g @rafaelrinaldi/hn-cli

Usage

Usage: hn [OPTIONS]

  CLI to browse Hacker News

Example:
  $ hn --limit 10 --keep-open

Options:
  -v --version              Display current software version
  -h --help                 Display help and usage details
  -l --limit                Limit the number of items to display (defaults to 150)
  -k --keep-open            Wether or not to keep the list open after selecting an item (defaults to false)
     --latest               Sort the list by submission date (defaults to false)

Features

By default it will list stories using the same order as seen on HN
You can change the list order to display the most recent ones by runnig the program with the --latest flag
You can use Vim arrow keys j and k to navigate through the list
Use gg to scroll to the first item of the list and G to scroll to the last one
Hitting the enter key will open the URL in your default browser
Hitting the c key will open the HN comments for that story on your default browser
Share an item on Twitter by hitting the t key
Hitting the r key will refresh the stories and update the current list
A status bar is fixed on the bottom of the screen to provide visual feedback about updates and reading progress
Use esc, ⌃C or q to close the program

License

MIT © Rafael Rinaldi

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Refresh shortcut

Hi,

Thanks. Really nice program. It would be nice to have a refresh feature, maybe with "r" key.

Better contrast for selected item on windows

Error : Use of const in strict mode

After installing the package via npm , I executed hn

It shows up the following error message in terminal

/usr/lib/node_modules/@rafaelrinaldi/hn-cli/bin/hn-cli:6
const cli = require('../cli');
^^^^^
SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode.
    at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:902:3

I using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Fetch latest

Add a feature to fetch only the latest (as in most recent) stories.

Show and open comments

The real important feature of HN are (IMHO) the comments.
So it would be nice to see how many comments and a shortcut to jump to it.

Display is blank on Cygwin under windows 7

If anyone has any ideas on why the content doesn't display or things to try under Cygwin. I have to use windows at work unfortunately 😦

Tests

Write some unit tests to make sure that at least the core features are reliable.

honor BROWSER environment variable

Hi,

If you could check for BROWSER environment variable and use that as the default for viewing, it would be great. My goal is to have commandline apps stay within an xterm. Personally, I'd suggest using 'links' but to each their own. :) thanks!

Enter exits app on windows 10

Support proxies

When running over SOCKS proxies on my corporate network, I received Request timeout ☹ Might want to try again?.

You should support the standard proxy environmental variables:

http_proxy
https_proxy

I believe using got you can pass tunnel in to go through proxies

const got = require('got');
const tunnel = require('tunnel');

got(url, {
    agent: tunnel.httpOverHttp({
        proxy: {
            host: 'localhost'
        }
    })
});

Thoughts?

Add order by

I would like to know if it is possible to order the news by time, should it be good to get the news up to date.

Could i create an PR for that issue?