[HN Gopher] Show HN: bbcli - A TUI and CLI to browse BBC News li...
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       Show HN: bbcli - A TUI and CLI to browse BBC News like a hacker
        
       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! :)
        
       Author : wesleyhill
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2025-10-19 10:58 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | devrundown wrote:
       | I always like seeing new TUI tools, nice work!
        
         | SwiftyBug wrote:
         | Me too! I found a few nice ones in the App Showcase page in the
         | Ratatui website: https://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/
        
       | esafak wrote:
       | 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]
        
         | folmar wrote:
         | The link is payload, maybe you could link to a concrete image
         | or some free search engine?
        
           | k1t wrote:
           | https://nmsceefax.co.uk/ for a live browser-based example.
        
       | alberth wrote:
       | 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)
        
         | GaryBluto wrote:
         | You don't want to get put on trial for computer misuse, do you?
         | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2005/oct/07/manf...
        
         | NoboruWataya wrote:
         | 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.
        
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