Hey Dev Community! Will you be my Valentine? Don't say no. Look, I even brought you a gift and everything! ๐๐
Haha! Okay, enough theatrics. I wanted to show you guys something really cool that my team and I have been working on for the past few days. DevTo CLI is a way to access Dev.to right from your terminal.
Us programmers, we really love the command line interface, don't we? That simple, unobtrusive, precise nature of it is what draws us in. GUIs just don't scratch the same itch! And that's exactly why I liked the idea behind HashnodeCLI so much when it released last month. It inspired me to take things a step further and make DevTo CLI.
It's super simple and powerful. You can fetch top posts, posts by an author, posts under a tag, latest posts and even more - all of this right in your terminal window. And the best thing? It's opensource! So you all are not only free to, but encouraged to add more features to it!
Key Features
1. Check the top posts
You can get top posts from the Dev.to feed in your terminal using:
devto
2. Check top posts by tag
Easy post search using the tag, you can use
devto tag javascript
if you don't know the keyword, you can use the search tag feature using
devto tag
3. Check recent posts by any author
You can check 5 most recent posts of any author using
devto author sarthology
4. Check top posts by timeline
You can check top posts on Dev.to for a specific timeframe using
devto top week
There are several options like week month year infinity. If you want to see the options just type
devto top
5. Search top posts by a keyword
Use the powerful search feature to find posts using keywords
devto search sarthology
With this, you can even search posts using a tag, author name, title... basically anything.
6. Check latest posts on Dev.to
You can also see the latest posts on Dev.to using
devto latest
Dev.to CLI
Wanted to get Dev.to on your terminal? Ahoy! now you can.
Usage
1. Check the top posts
You can get top posts from the Dev.to feed in your terminal using:
devto
2. Check top posts by tag
Easy post search using the tag, you can use
devto tag javascript
if you don't know the keyword, you can use the search tag feature using
devto tag
3. Check recent posts by any author
You can check 5 most recent posts of any author using
devto author sarthology
4. Check top posts
You can check top posts on Dev.to using
devto top
If you want top posts for a specific timeframe, just type in
devto top week
There are several options like week month year infinity. If you want to see the options just type
5. Search top posts by a keyword
Use the powerful search feature to findโฆ
So this is DevTo CLI. I would love to hear what you guys think of this, and suggest new ideas for what else we could add to this! Share your thoughts in the comments!
Top comments (58)
This is neat!! Well done, I'll definitely try it :D
Though I think the enthusiasm made you forget to link the project :D
I have a question: how do you fetch the data since the API is not public yet? RSS? Scraping?
Damn! Just added it.
Scraping.
YEAH BOIIIII!!!
I can imagine you all doing it. ๐
Oh we totally did! ๐
Great side benefit to this -- you can look like you're to non-programmers working when you're really just reading dev.to :)
Exactly !!
But why Node.js ?? ๐
That's the fastest way I could build it and I love node. ๐
I would have done it in PHP. ๐
See, preferences brother ๐
No, in fact I would have done it in Go.
PHP for a CLI, it's not serious (except for learning purpose)!
Yeah, go is good for cli.
When API is out, RIIR :v
Great work! I will add PR to dev.to to change HTML structure ๐
Hahaha ๐๐๐
This is awesome โค๏ธ
Maybe add the repo url and/or installation instructions ๐
Does it work on all platforms? macOS, Linux, Windows
Not sure if it already does this, but maybe add a login option (API key) so it can get your personalised feed (tags/people you follow, + tag weight is different for everyone).
API for devto is not yet available. So for that we may have to wait.
Wot! this is too awesome. Like not just awesome. Hardcore awesome.
Ok hardcore sounds too much since it's also Valentine's.. u should get the idea tho :D
Hahaha, yeah totally getting you bro.
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All for our nerd cravings ๐ค
Oh yeah !! ๐
This is great :D, awesome job man!
Thanks Steven ๐