@vibe-reader/cli

CLI tools for extracting article content and flattening Hacker News discussions to Markdown.

Install

npm install -g @vibe-reader/cli

Prerequisites

The extract command uses Playwright for headless browser rendering. Install Chromium after installing the package:

npx playwright install chromium

Commands

vibe-reader extract <url>

Extract article content from a URL as Markdown. Uses a headless Chromium browser to render JavaScript-heavy pages, then extracts the main content.

Options:

• -t, --timeout <ms> — Navigation timeout in milliseconds (default: 30000)

$ vibe-reader extract https://example.com/article

# With custom timeout
$ vibe-reader extract --timeout 60000 https://example.com/slow-page

Example output:

# Article Title

Article body content converted to clean Markdown...

vibe-reader hnflat <url>

Fetch a Hacker News discussion thread and flatten it to Markdown. Preserves the comment hierarchy with indentation.

$ vibe-reader hnflat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345

Example output:

# Discussion Title

**user1** (120 points)
Top-level comment text...

  **user2**
  Reply to user1...

    **user3**
    Nested reply...

License

MIT