tui-chan

An Imageboard Terminal User Interface. Currently supports only 4chan.

Installation

Download the latest release. The binary executable is tui-chan. Put it in your PATH so that you can execute it from everywhere.

Then run it from the command line.

tui-chan

You may specify an imageboard name as an argument, the default one is 4chan.

Building from source

If your architecture is not supported by the pre-built binaries you can build the application from the source code yourself. Make sure you have Rust installed.

git clone https://github.com/tuqqu/tui-chan.git
cd tui-chan
cargo install --path . # copies binary to /.cargo/bin/

# to uninstall run
cargo uninstall

Controls

Controls can be configured in ~/.config/tui-chan/keybinds.conf

Default controls

Press h to show / hide help bar to look up controls. Use d to open board or thread and a to return to the previous panel.

Description	Keys
Move around	w,a,s,d
Move quickly	control + w,a,s,d
Toggle help bar	h
Next page	p
Previous page	control + p
Reload page	r
Toggle fullscreen for the selected panel	z
Copy the direct url to the selected thread or post	c
Copy the selected post media (image/webm) url	control + c
Open the selected thread or post in browser	o
Open the selected post media (image/webm) in browser	control + o
Quit	q