Watch HN

CLI tool (Rust) to watch hackernews for new comments and keywords

Supports output to console and notification to slack.

Run

cargo install watchhn

Download (mac & windows)

Watch a post for new comments

watchhn post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23796580 --slack-webhook <optional slack webhook url>

Watch hackernews for posts with keywords

keywords rust bitcoin GPT-3 --new --slack-webhook <optional slack webhook url>

Options

Global

-i, --interval <SECONDS> Time in seconds to wait between each check [default: 10]

-s, --slack-webhook <HOOK URL> Slack webhook url to send notifications

Post watchhn post

Watches a post for new comments. First indexes the post to save current comments, then watches for new comments anywhere in the hierarchy.

<link> Link to the HN post to watch

Example: watchhn post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23796580

Keywords watchhn keywords

Watches top, new or both HN index page for posts containing any of a given set of keywords

-n, --new Include new stories

-t, --top Include top stories

-l, --limit <limit> Limit the number of posts to check for each kind (new and top) [default: 40]