Something Awful

This is an early-stage unofficial client to Something Awful.

Some of the things you can do:

• Read public user profiles
• Fetch individual posts from threads
• Get the status of bookmarked threads

The client assumes that you have a registered account. Register here.

See tail-something-awful.rs for an end-to-end example that uses the client to tail updates to bookmarked threads.

Put Something Awful in a tmux pane and never get anything done at work ever again! Example output:

$ ./tail-something-awful
Logged in.

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 /\_/\
( o.o )
 > ^ <

thread: here is an example title
url: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=12345&goto=newpost
author: Somebody Cool
time: Jun 18, 2023 22:08
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Read a markdown-formatted synopsis from the comfort of your terminal!

The program caches your credentials by default in .something-awful.token and
also caches seen post history in .something-awful.history to avoid showing
duplicate messages.