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Stay informed without leaving your command line

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

<img alt="Welcome to nachrichten" src="https://github.com/zMoooooritz/nachrichten/blob/media/media/demo.gif" width="800" />

⇁ 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:

  1. Article Viewer: Displays the full text of the respective article.
  2. Image Viewer: Shows the thumbnail image associated with the article, rendered as ASCII art.
  3. 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

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

An example configuration can be found here

The default keybinds are as follows:

KeyAction
arrows / hjklnavigation
g / Ggoto start / end
tab / shift+tabchange tabs
fmaximize reader/viewer
ashow article view
ishow thumbnail view
dshow details view
oopen article url
vopen article vod
sopen current news vod
?toggle help
q / esc / ctrl+cquit

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