How to navigate Reddit from the terminal

Luigys Toro

3 minutes

I am a passionate user of Reddit the platform that allows us to stay informed about the most passionate topics on the internet and, above all, interact in a wide community that provides very important feedback. One way I've known to be more active on Reddit while doing my usual tasks is to navigate the platform from the console, thanks to a tool called RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer).
This platform that allows us to navigate in Reddit from the terminal, has had a great acceptance in the various Reddit communities, it has also allowed many users to access the services of this platform under limited conditions, making it an application that has been growing and improving due to the large community that has been created around her.

What is Reddit?

It is an open source platform, which behaves like an aggregator of social bookmarks and news, which are evaluated by users who rate them positively or negatively, also having the option to comment on it.

The tool segments what is shared into various categories and is one of the most important discussion centers on the internet, its creators Steven Huffman and Alexis Ohanian ensure that the platform is the most important discussion center of Anglo-Saxon culture, it is also a high-level tool virality and with a widely prepared community.

What is RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer)?

RTV is an open source interface compatible with most of the console emulators for Linux, developed in Python by Michael Lazar, which allows us to visualize and interact with reddit.

With RTV we can navigate Reddit from the terminal, making use of a large number of keyboard shortcuts, a list of commands and an integration with the various tools installed in our OS. Reddit from the terminal

RTV is easy to use, fast, light and with an almost perfect integration with Reddit, it is designed for use at all times, with adequate highlighting, acceptable navigability, with support for the configuration of our terminal and with a very good page. watch out. In the same way, the tool has a menu that segments the news according to various categories and the response time is very fast.

A quick demonstration of the tool and its use can be seen in the following gif made by the main developer of the application.

Reddit from the terminal

How to install RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer)?

To install RTV we must have Python and PIP installed, then we simply must execute the following command:
$ pip install rtv

For their part, Arch Linux users and derivatives can install the tool from the AUR repositories, with the following command:

$ yaourt -S rtv

Once the tool is installed, just run rtv from any terminal, to know all the tool options we can run $ rtv --help

With this we can begin to enjoy browsing Reddit from the terminal, simply, quickly and with the preferred tool of Linux users.


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  1.   triplip said
    ago 7 years

    Forgive my ignorance but what directory does it install in? Bash does not find the command: S

    Reply to triplip