michael-lazar/rtv

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Reddit Terminal Viewer (RTV)

A text-based interface (TUI) to view and interact with Reddit from your terminal.

Table of Contents

• Demo
• Installation
• Usage
• Settings
• Themes
• FAQ
• Contributing
• License

Demo

You can use telnet or ssh to try out a lite version of RTV directly in your terminal, without needing to install it:

• $ telnet redditbox.us
• $ ssh redditbox.us

redditbox.us is an independent project by Alex Jarmoszuk

Installation

PyPI package

RTV is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip:

$ pip install rtv

Native packages

See Repology for an up-to-date list of supported distro packages:

# macOS
$ brew install rtv

# Arch
$ pacman -S rtv

# Nix
$ nix-env -i rtv

# Debian
$ apt install rtv

# FreeBSD
$ pkg install rtv

From source

$ git clone https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv.git
$ cd rtv
$ python setup.py install

Windows

RTV is not supported on Windows, due to a lack of resources and interest. Sorry!

Usage

To run the program, type:

$ rtv --help

Controls

Move the cursor using either the arrow keys or Vim style movement:

• Press ▲ and ▼ to scroll through submissions
• Press ▶ to view the selected submission and ◀ to return
• Press space-bar to expand/collapse comments
• Press u to login (this requires a web browser for OAuth)
• Press ? to open the help screen

Press / to open the navigation prompt, where you can type things like:

• /front
• /r/commandprompt+linuxmasterrace
• /r/programming/controversial
• /u/me
• /u/multi-mod/m/art
• /domain/github.com

See CONTROLS for the full list of commands.

Settings

Configuration File

Configuration files are stored in the {HOME}/.config/rtv/ directory.

Check out rtv.cfg for the full list of configurable options. You can clone this file into your home directory by running:

$ rtv --copy-config

Viewing Media Links

You can use mailcap to configure how RTV will open different types of links.

A mailcap file allows you to associate different MIME media types, like image/jpeg or video/mp4, with shell commands. This feature is disabled by default because it takes a few extra steps to configure. To get started, copy the default mailcap template to your home directory.

$ rtv --copy-mailcap

This template contains examples for common MIME types that work with popular reddit websites like imgur, youtube, and gfycat. Open the mailcap template and follow the instructions listed inside.

Once you've setup your mailcap file, enable it by launching rtv with the rtv --enable-media flag (or set it in your rtv.cfg)

Environment Variables

The default programs that RTV interacts with can be configured through environment variables:

Clipboard

RTV supports copying submission links to the OS clipboard. On macOS this is supported out of the box. On Linux systems you will need to install either xsel or xclip.

Themes

Themes can be used to customize the look and feel of RTV

Solarized Dark	Solarized Light
Papercolor	Molokai

You can list all installed themes with the --list-themes command, and select one with --theme. You can save your choice permanently in your rtv.cfg file. You can also use the F2 & F3 keys inside of RTV to cycle through all available themes.

For instructions on writing and installing your own themes, see THEMES.md.

FAQ

Contributing

All feedback and suggestions are welcome, just post an issue!

Before writing any code, please read the Contributor Guidelines.

License

This project is distributed under the MIT license.