st cat

st-cat — Print story container fields to stdout

Prints the raw JSON contents of a story container to the terminal. Useful for debugging or piping to other tools.

Examples

st-cat -t subject.json              # print title of story 1
st-cat --markdown -s 3 subject.json # print markdown of story 3
st-cat -f 2 -s 1 subject.json       # print fact-check report 2 from story 1
st-cat --text -s 2 subject.json     # print plain text body of story 2

Options: -s story -f fact --title --text --markdown --hashtags --spoken

Related: st-ls · st-edit

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For developers

Reads a single story (or fact-check) from a .json container and prints the requested field(s) to standard output. Useful for piping story text into other tools or shell scripts.