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Show HN: bbcli – A TUI and CLI to browse BBC News like a hacker

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hey hn!

I (re)built this TUI tool for browsing BBC News in the terminal, it uses an RSS feed for getting headlines and previews and you can read articles too.

Try it out and let me know what you think! :)

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It might be before your time, but if you want some bonus points emulate Ceefax:

https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/51354070.jpg [edited]

The link is payload, maybe you could link to a concrete image or some free search engine?

https://nmsceefax.co.uk/ for a live browser-based example.

Done. https://nmsceefax.co.uk

I have an almost identical RSS experience using emacs+elfeed+firefox but with the added bonus of being able to filter out articles (eg sport) that I'm not interested in. Plus I can read many other feeds beyond BBC.

I always like seeing new TUI tools, nice work!

Me too! I found a few nice ones in the App Showcase page in the Ratatui website: https://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/

Three reasons for TUIs:

Speed of rendering

Consistency / limited styles

Keyboard controls

It is possible to achieve this other ways. But what’s interesting that for example Visual Basic or Borland C use a windowing concept

Very cool.

Would be interesting to hear why this over a general purpose text-based browser like Lynx.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

You don't want to get put on trial for computer misuse, do you? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2005/oct/07/manf...

https://boingboing.net/2005/10/06/guy-who-was-busted-f.html/... was the best link I could find for that story

My own government luckily even offers to reach out in your stead if a company doesn't respond to your disclosure, so pen testing random websites seems implicitly allowed, but such a vertict is still scary to read for such an innocuous probe.

If you actually try access bbc.co.uk using Lynx, you'll see it's just not a great experience. Most modern websites are not made with text-based browsers in mind at all, and the HTML (and other stuff) they are made of does not lend itself to easy or intuitive display in the terminal.

This seems more akin to an RSS reader than a general web browser.

This is the kind of tool that actually gets used daily, well done!

a real hacker would never consume that propaganda slop

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