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Grabbing all the comments and intelligently displaying them in a terminal would require substantially more work, I suspect.
by aspensmonster 13y ago
Grabbing all the comments and intelligently displaying them in a terminal would require substantially more work, I suspect.
- krapp 13y agoThat's probably true. The nested format would be a challenge at the very least.
- Watabou 13y agoThen the author should say that. "You should never read comments" just doesn't make sense in HN when comments are the entire point of why I'm here. Right now, I don't see why I should use this tool when I can just use elinks.
- kenbellows 13y ago...maybe it was a joke.
- devgutt 13y agoI used to use elinks with a filter (words.txt) by topic elinks -dump news.ycombinator.com | sed -n -e 's/\([0-9]\+\)\.\ \+\(\[.\+\]\)\+\(.*\)/\1: \3/p' | grep -f words.txt -i
- rdl 13y agoAn HN to nntp scraper would be awesome.
- jingo 13y agoJust so I understand correctly, are you saying you would like to be able to read HN using an nntp client?
- rdl 13y agoYes!
- zeckalpha 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss + http://gwene.org/ http://gwene.org/ EDIT: Though I suppose it would be cool if comments worked, too.
- rdl 13y agoYeah, I meant for each top port to be a thread, and threaded comments below that.
- tzs 13y agoI want that for mail. I keep planning to write something that can connect to an IMAP server and present the contents via NNTP, but it is low enough on my list that I don't know if I'll ever do it. I know that the effect can be achieved by running an NNTP server, and using a mail/news gateway, but that's a lot more complex. Most NNTP servers are meant for big multiuser situations, and that makes configuring them complex, and often requires a lot of supporting software. Massive overkill for someone who just wants to read their mail in their newsreader and get a good threaded message view with a good UI.
- jespi 13y agoNope http://pastebin.com/Y9F1PYLM http://pastebin.com/Y9F1PYLM