Awesome

nachrichten

Stay informed without leaving your command line

Access up-to-date news in German provided by the tagesschau

⇁ Installation

Package Manager

# Arch Linux (btw)
yay -S nachrichten # only AUR

Go

Install directly using go

go install github.com/zMoooooritz/nachrichten@latest

or download from releases

⇁ Usage

Run the nachrichten command to launch the minimalistic yet informative terminal interface

Usage of nachrichten:
  -config string
        Path to configuration file
  -debug string
        Path to log file
  -shortnews
    	Only open the current short news
  -version
    	Display version

Viewers

The application offers three different viewers:

Article Viewer: Displays the full text of the respective article.
Image Viewer: Shows the thumbnail image associated with the article, rendered as ASCII art.
Details Viewer: Provides detailed information about the article and lists related articles. You can open related articles by pressing the corresponding number key.

⇁ Configuration

The tool does allow for user customization

Theme - Adapt the used colors in order to change the look and feel of the application
Keybinds - Customize all keys used within the application
Applications - Some news related resources can't be shown in a TUI, configure the apps used to open those resources
Settings - General settings that alter the behavior of the application

An example configuration can be found here

The default keybinds are as follows:

Key	Action
arrows / hjkl	navigation
g / G	goto start / end
tab / shift+tab	change tabs
pgup / pgdown	page up / down
/	open search dialog
enter	confirm search input
esc	abort search input
f	maximize reader/viewer
a	show article view
i	show thumbnail view
d	show details view
o	open article url
v	open article vod
s	open current news vod
?	toggle help
q / esc / ctrl+c	quit

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