Description

These scripts fetch and display the comments of an AUR package.

Two versions are provided: Python and Shell. The Python version is the recommended one. It is faster and has better comments formatting. Additionally, the shell version does not support some options like -b and -i.

This program is also available from the AUR: aur-talk-git. It will be installed as aur-talk and can be used directly with aurutils 2.0+ as a contrib script (e.g. aur talk aurutils -p).

Usage

• Python version: $ ./aur_talk.py [...] <PACKAGE-NAME>
• Shell version: $ ./aur_talk.sh [...] <PACKAGE-NAME>

Usage: aur_talk [-h] [-a | -n NUM_COMMENTS] [-p | -l] [-w WIDTH | -f] <PACKAGE-NAME>
Display AUR comments for PACKAGE-NAME.

-h, --help            show this help message and exit
-a, --all             Fetch all comments.
-n NUM_COMMENTS, --num-comments NUM_COMMENTS
                      Number of comments to fetch. Pinned comments are
                      always fetched.
-p, --pinned-only     Display the pinned comments only.
-l, --latest-only     Display the latest comments only.
-w WIDTH, --width WIDTH
                      Number of columns for formatting comments. Default
                      is full available width.
-b, --bold            Render **bold** text. May not work depending on your
                      terminal.
-i, --italic          Render _italic_ text. May not work depending on your
                      terminal.

Dependencies

aur_talk.py dependencies:

• python 3
• lxml
• html2text

Arch users can install them from the main repo: python, python-lxml and python-html2text.

aur_talk.sh dependencies:

• curl
• hq

Arch users can install them from the main repo: curl and hq).

Example output