RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer)

RTV provides an interface to view and interact with reddit from your terminal.

It's compatible with most terminal emulators on Linux and OS X.

RTV is built in python using the curses library.

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• Installation

• Usage

• Settings

• FAQ

• Contributing

• License

Installation

Install using pip (recommended)

$ pip install rtv

or clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv.git
$ cd rtv
$ python3 setup.py install

on Arch Linux or Arch based distros (Antergos, Manjaro, etc.) you can install directly with an aur helper such as yaourt.

$ yaourt -S rtv
$ # or to keep up to date with the master branch
$ yaourt -S rtv-git

Usage

To run the program, type

$ rtv --help

Controls

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

• Press up and down to scroll through submissions

• Press right to view the selected submission and left to return

• Press space to expand/collapse comments

• Press u to login

• 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-week

• /u/me

• /u/multi-mod/m/art

• /domain/github.com

See CONTROLS for the full list of commands.

Settings

Configuration

Configuration settings are stored in {HOME}/.config/rtv/rtv.cfg. Auto-generate the config file by running

$ rtv --copy-config

See the default config for the full list of settings.

Editor

You can compose posts and reply to comments using your preferred text editor. Set the editor by changing $RTV_EDITOR in your environment.

$ export RTV_EDITOR=gedit

If not specified, the default system $EDITOR (or nano) will be used.

Web Browser

You can open submission links using your web browser. On most systems the default web browser will open in a new window. If you prefer the complete terminal experience, set $BROWSER to a console-based web browser.

$ export BROWSER=w3m

w3m, lynx, and elinks are all good choices.

Url Viewer

You can extract links from inside of comments using urlview. Use $RTV_URLVIEWER to specify a custom url viewer.

$ export RTV_URLVIEWER=urlview

urlview and urlscan are known to be compatible, but any program that accepts text via a stdin pipe will do. These applications don't come pre-installed, but are available through most systems' package managers.

FAQ

Why am I getting an error during installation/when launching rtv?

If your distro ships with an older version of python 2.7 or python-requests, you may experience SSL errors or other package incompatibilities. The easiest way to fix this is to install rtv using python 3. If you don't already have pip3, see http://stackoverflow.com/a/6587528 for setup instructions. Then do

$ sudo pip uninstall rtv
$ sudo pip3 install -U rtv

How do I run the repository code directly?

This project is structured to be run as a python module. This means that in order to resolve imports you need to launch using python's -m flag. This method works for all versions of python. See the example below, which assumes that you have cloned the repository into the directory ~/rtv_project.

$ cd ~/rtv_project
$ python3 -m rtv

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.