Follow Hacker News from the Console(catonmat.net)

68 pointsby ajbatacvor 18 Jahren21 comments

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/follow-hacker-news-from-the-console/

22 comments

rmanochavor 18 Jahren

Looks great. I have wanted to do something similar (not for HN...) for a while now, but never really got around to learning curses etc. Can you write a post here or on your blog explaining the steps involved or maybe give a link to the curses tutorial you used - or did you just know all this stuff already :).

pkruminsvor 18 Jahren

I'll write a post about it in near future :)

pkruminsvor 18 Jahren

I'm writing the post now. Check my blog in a few hours :)

pgvor 18 Jahren

Wow. This looks great. How often does it poll the server?

pkruminsvor 18 Jahren

It polls the server once per 30 seconds (it's the default). The polling interval can be changed via '-i' command line option.

pgvor 18 Jahren

That's a bit fast. And uselessly so, because the frontpage is only regenerated every 90 seconds. How about putting your email in your profile so we can continue this by email?

pkruminsvor 18 Jahren

Done. (it's peter at catonmat dot net)

michaelnealevor 18 Jahren

kinda disappointing that in 2008 we still have to poll to get any sort of push on the web. But hey, it works. (yes there is the "comet" style of things to - perhaps pg will provide some API to work like that).

tlrobinsonvor 18 Jahren

Cool, but

    lynx "http://news.ycombinator.com"

is almost identical.

A little shell script magic gets you auto-refreshing:

    #!/bin/sh

    while true; do
        sh -c "sleep 90; pkill lynx" &
        lynx "http://news.ycombinator.com"
    done

(there's probably a better way that won't kill all your lynx sessions)

therevor 18 Jahren

while true; do clear; lynx -dump -nolist http://news.ycombinator.com/; sleep 90; done

pkruminsvor 18 Jahren

I have not written about it yet, but the hacker-top program contains a python module called 'pyhackerstories.py' which you can import 'get_stories' function from.

Then you can do tricks like these:

    >>> from pyhackerstories import get_stories
    >>> stories = get_stories()
    >>> for story in stories:
    ...     print "%2d. %s (%d)" % (story.position, story.title, story.score)
    ...
    1. Hans Reiser leads police to body, believed to be his wife (23)
    2. Follow Hacker News from the Console (18)
    3. Scaling on EC2 - WebMynd's experiences (YC Winter '08) (57)
    4. Google Protocol Buffers - Open Sourced (19)
    5. Balsamiq - Software and Website Mockup App (47)
    ...

Cheers :)

fromagevor 18 Jahren

    watch -n 90 lynx -dump -nolist http://news.ycombinator.com/

tlrobinsonvor 18 Jahren

Sure, but you don't get the color :)

godvor 18 Jahren

Is it possible to get rid of all the metadata in Lynx, like image names etc?

I tried "lynx -verbose" but it still displays stuff like [INLINE] and [LINK].

nadimvor 18 Jahren

In case you're in the same boat as me: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/lynxt...

I can't believe it took me this long to realize it's not included.

wheelsvor 18 Jahren

I can't believe it took you this long to discover Fink. :-)

nadimvor 18 Jahren

It's not that I haven't heard of it or macports, it's that I haven't really found a need until now.

tlrobinsonvor 18 Jahren

It's also available in MacPorts and Fink, I believe.

[deleted]vor 18 Jahren

shafqatvor 18 Jahren

Very nice... Sometimes I forget how fun it is being a nerd. I love this kind of stuff.

axodvor 18 Jahren

Nice, but using Putty for the screenshots? ;)

endlessvoid94vor 18 Jahren

i like it.

this could've been done hundreds of different ways (rss, lynx, etc, etc.) but i still like it.

python rocks.