Yukko

Yukko is an ASCIIpunk NNTPchan client written in Python 3. Place a list of nodes seperated by new lines in nodeList.txt and the client will cycle through them at random. nntp.py is the library I have written for this project, it has been intentionally written in such a way that it does not depend on anything in the rest of the program, this allows it to be pulled out and used for other projects. To start it run ./yukko.py
Dependancies

• Python 3
• requests
• pypng

Screenies

Controls

Board overview

• Left/Right: Change page
• Up/Down: Scroll
• Enter: Open thread
• Escape: Go to board
• P: New thread
• B: Board list
• R: Refresh

Thread

• Backspace/Left/Escape: Back to board overview.
• Up/Down: Scroll
• Enter: View attachments (does nothing if there are none)
• P: New reply
• R: Refresh

Attachments

• Up/Down: Scroll
• Enter: Download attachment
• Backspace/Left/Escape: Back to thread

Settings

General settings are stored in settings.json

download directory

The directory to download attachments to.

text editor

The command used to open a text editor.

theme folder

The directory holding the current theme.

max overview lines

The maximum amount of lines to show in board overview mode before contracting the post.

max overview posts

The maxmimum amount of posts, starting from the end of the thread (not including the opening post) to show in board view mode.

default board

The default board that Yukko will go to when started.

http proxy/https proxy

Sets a proxy for all traffic, such as "socks5://127.0.0.1:9050". Note that SOCKS proxies will require the socks add-on for the requests module, which can be installed like so:

sudo pip install -U "requests[socks]"

Themes

Themes can be used to style Yukko to look however you like, from changing the ascii art to the borders around the posts.
They contain 5 files:

• attachmentsBg.txt: The background to display on the attachments page.
• boardListBg.txt: The background to display on the board list page.
• emptyBoard.txt: The background to display in the case that a board is empty.
• errorRetrievingPage.txt: The background to display in the case that an error occurs while attempting to obtain the board.
• posts.json: Contains information for the styling of posts
• global: Applies to both opening posts and normal posts
• local: Applies to either opening posts or normal posts
• default: Style data for a normal post
• OP: Style data for an opening post
  - unselected: Style data for when a post is not selected - selected: Style data for when a post is selected
  • seperator: The seperating line between each post
  • seperator repeat: The character that will be repeated in the case that the terminal is wider than the seperator
  • header: The header for each post, supporting python's formatting mini language. Spaces are occupied like so:
  1. Name
  2. Subject
  3. Post ID
  4. Date
  5. Attachment character
  • body: The string to repeat vertically along the body of the post
  • footer: The string to use for the end of a post
  • footer repeat: The string to repeat horizontally along the body of the post in the case that the width of the terminal is larger than that of the footer.