Tough-Coder

Tough-Coder is a CLI tool that infinitely outputs lines of random (or web-sourced) text, giving the appearance that you're running a complex, impressive command. It allows you to control speed, color, lines per tick, probabilities of scenarios, and even pull data from websites.

Installation

npm install -g tough-coder

Usage

Run the command with various parameters:

Parameters Scenarios and Probability:

-P-: Start a new scenario with the given probability (0.1 to 1). The parameters that follow belong to this scenario until another -P is encountered or arguments end. Example:

tough-coder -P-0.5 -s 10 -c r -P-0.1 -s 3 -c y -l 5

This means:

• 50% chance per tick: Speed=10 lines/sec, color=red, lines=1 (default if not set)
• 10% chance per tick: Speed=3 lines/sec, color=yellow, 5 lines per tick
• 40% (remaining probability): fallback scenario (default: speed=1, white color, 1 line)

Speed (-s): Sets how many lines per second. For example, -s 5 means 5 lines/second.

Default: 1

Color (-c): Sets the text color. Options include:

r - red
b - blue
y - yellow
g - green
m - magenta
c - cyan
Default: white

Example: -c y for yellow text.

Lines per Tick (-l): How many lines to print each interval.

Default: 1

URL (-u) and Depth (-d): Fetches words from a given URL and optionally follows links up to a certain depth to gather more words.

If no URL is provided, a default URL inside dataFetcher is used. Depth controls how many levels of links are followed.

Example:

tough-coder -u "https://example.com" -d 2

This crawls example.com and its linked pages (one level deep) to collect words, mixing them into the output.

Examples Simple Default Run:

tough-coder

Prints random lines at speed=1 line/second, white color, infinite loop.

Fast Red Lines:

tough-coder -P-1 -s 10 -c r

Always print at 10 lines/sec, red text.

Multiple Scenarios:

tough-coder -P-0.5 -s 10 -c r -P-0.1 -s 3 -c y -l 5

• 50% of the time: red and fast
• 10% of the time: yellow, slower, and more lines
• 40% fallback: default white, speed=1, 1 line/tick

Using Web Data:

tough-coder -P-1 -s 5 -c g -u "https://example.com" -d 2

Green text at 5 lines/sec, mixing words from example.com and its linked pages (one link depth), with fallback to random words if no data is found.