#comments #watch #hacker-news #keyword #cli

app watchhn

Watch hackernews for new comments and keywords

1 unstable release

0.1.0 Jul 19, 2020

#7 in #hackernews

MIT license

14KB
288 lines

Watch HN

CLI tool (Rust) to watch hackernews for new comments and keywords

Supports output to console and notification to slack.

Run

cargo install watchhn

Download (mac & windows)

Watch a post for new comments

watchhn post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23796580 --slack-webhook <optional slack webhook url>

Watch hackernews for posts with keywords

keywords rust bitcoin GPT-3 --new --slack-webhook <optional slack webhook url>

Options

Global

-i, --interval <SECONDS> Time in seconds to wait between each check [default: 10]

-s, --slack-webhook <HOOK URL> Slack webhook url to send notifications

Post watchhn post

Watches a post for new comments. First indexes the post to save current comments, then watches for new comments anywhere in the hierarchy.

<link> Link to the HN post to watch

Example: watchhn post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23796580

Keywords watchhn keywords

Watches top, new or both HN index page for posts containing any of a given set of keywords

-n, --new Include new stories

-t, --top Include top stories

-l, --limit <limit> Limit the number of posts to check for each kind (new and top) [default: 40]

Dependencies

~9–14MB
~271K SLoC