Hackercli

Uses hacker news RSS (bigrss) and reddit news RSS to print titles, article url, comments url, and any other information provided. May be used as a filter for other commands.

This is a single file and so may be placed anywhere in the path. Also, one may include it in a project and get the array of hashes for each article and use as per requirements.

This is NOT dependent on any other gem as it uses and parses the simple RSS feed using +String.scan+ only.

The feed used for Hacker News is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss

The feed used for Reddit News is (replace ruby with any other subreddit):

    http://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/.rss

Please click these links and check if they are working if there is any problem.

hackercli.rb --help

Installation

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install hackercli

Usage

hackercli.rb --help

To view hacker news titles and info.

hackercli.rb

To view only titles:

hackercli.rb -t

To view reddit ruby:

hackercli.rb -s ruby

Present the URL of some other RSS feed:

hackercli.rb -u https://someurl.com/.rss

NOTE: this has been tested only with Hackernews bigrss and reddit news' RSS, so I cannot gaurantee how it will behave with others. Some tags such as item, title and link are expected to be present.

Testing and debugging

If you run into errors, or wish to repeatedly test out, you may save an RSS feed and supply the local file name to the program.

wget https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss
hackercli.rb -u bigrss

See Also:

hacker-curse

This uses nokogiri to parse the actual Hackernews (or reddit) page, and can print on the CLI as well as be used as a library for another application. hacker-curse also provides a curses interface for viewing titles and comments, and launching the article or comments page in the GUI browser.

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/hackercli/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request