In the next article we are going to take a look at RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer). With this program we can connect to Reddit. This is a platform that allows us to stay informed about the most exciting and varied topics on the internet. Like any social network, it allows us to interact with a large community that will provide us with very interesting feedback.
The RTV application is going to give us a different way to be active on Reddit than usual. We can continue to carry out our usual tasks, while allowing us to navigate through this news platform using the console.
This program that will allow us to navigate in Reddit from the terminal, has had a great acceptance in the various communities of this social network. It has also allowed many users to access the services of this platform, making it an application that has been growing and improving due to the wide community that has been created around it.
If there is still someone today who does not know what Reddit is, say that this is an open source platform, which works as a news aggregator. These will be evaluated by users who rate them positively or negatively. Users are also given the option to comment on each of them.
Reddit divides what users share into various categories and today it is one of the most important discussion centers on the internet. The creators of Reddit themselves, called Steven Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, have ensured that the platform is the most important discussion center of Anglo-Saxon culture. It is also a high virality tool which has a tremendously large community.
RTV is going to provide us with an interface to see and interact with Reddit from the terminal of our team. Is compatible with most terminal emulators on Gnu / Linux and OS X.
RTV General Features
RTV is an open source interface developed in Python and that allows us to view and interact with Reddit in a complete way from the terminal.
This application will also provide us lots of keyboard shortcuts, a list of commands and a good integration with the various tools installed in our operating system, for greater comfort in using the application.
Reddit Terminal Viewer is easy to use, fast, lightweight, and features a almost seamless integration with Reddit. The program will provide us with an adequate highlighting of the text, with which we will achieve acceptable navigability. It also has support for the configuration of our terminal and a careful paging system. With this, we can find the news we are looking for in a simple way, the tool has a menu that segments the news according to different categories. It should be noted that the response time is more than acceptable.
Install RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer) on Ubuntu
To install RTV we must have both installed on our Ubuntu system Python as PIP. When we already have these programs, we simply have to execute the following command in the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T).
sudo pip install rtv
Installation will be quick. Once the tool is installed, just run rtv from any terminal. As expected in an application of this style, has a lot of options. In order to know all the options that the tool offers to users, it gives us the possibility of executing the following request for help.
rtv –h
With this we can begin to enjoy browsing Reddit from the terminal. We can do it easily, quickly and with a tool that has been a real discovery for me.
If anyone needs to consult more information about RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer) we can do it from its page github.
Uninstall RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer) from Ubuntu
If we don't like it Reddit Terminal Viewer, we can uninstall the application in a simple way. We will only have to execute an order like the following in a terminal.
sudo pip uninstall rtv