Links comes pretty close. Here's some of the output of this comments page: $ links -dump 'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992951' [IMG] Hacke

Links comes pretty close. Here's some of the output of this comments page: $ links -dump 'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992951' [IMG] Hacker Newsnew | comments | ask | jobs | submit login [IMG] Show HN: HN In Your Terminal (github.com) 37 points by ciaranarcher 5 hours ago | 14 comments _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ [ add comment ] [IMG] bstar77 1 hour ago | link This would be infinitely more useful if there was a view that scraped the comments for each article or (even better) scraped the article itself (instapaper style). I would love to peruse hacker news this way in-between working as I hate getting distracted on websites. If I get some free time I might look into adding that myself. reply [IMG] slajax 1 hour ago | link I would use this but I also think it needs to implement at very least the comments page view. Otherwise you might as well just stick to the browser. There are a lot of times I'll read comments before I read an article, so I could still find it useful even if you didn't scrape the entire article to it's own view but allowed me to browse the comments. reply .... Lists | RSS | Bookmarklet | Guidelines | FAQ | DMCA | News News | Feature Requests | Y Combinator | Apply | Library Search: __________________