A python based commandline utility to fetch the json representations from Snippet entries at https://snippets.bentasker.co.uk and display them as plain text.
Basically a tool for my own convenience, allows me to grab and search snippets without leaving the comfort of my terminal.
It's currently very rough and ready.
- Pipe support
- Offline reading mode
- Shortcuts for the lazy
- Search mechanism
By default, the script will make a call to my Analytics system - this allows me to see things that people are either finding useful or are searching for so that I can improve the snippets collection. In order to disable this analytics call, just set
UPDATE_ANALYTICS=False
toward the top of sbt_cli.py
Commands can be parsed in one of three ways
- Piped (e.g.
echo 4 | ./sbt_cli.py) - Interactivey (
./sbt_cli.py) - As arguments (
./sbt_cli.py 4)
Where something intended as single argument contains a space, it should be quoted:
./sbt_cli.py search 'RTMP Server'
[Num] - Jump to the specified Snippet ID (e.g. 4)
[Search phrase] - Search snippets for phrase
list - List all snippets in the system
help - Display this output
[Snippet ID] - Display the specified snippet
snippet [Num] - Display the specified snippet
If only a single snippet matches the given search, it will be printed directly
search [search phrase] - Search globally for any snippet with the phrase in title, keywords or similar to
search [search phrase] title - Search globally for any snippet with the phrase in title
search [search phrase] lang [language] - Filter search results to only include specified language
search [search phrase] similarto - Search for snippets that contain [string] in the list of things they're similar to
lang [language] - Output all snippets marked as being written for [language]
- Trigger pager for particularly long output
SBTCli is Copyright (C) 2017 B Tasker. All Rights Reserved. Released under the GNU GPL V2 License, see LICENSE.