Chatblade

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command line interface

SHOW HN2023

315points
65comments
#134of 3,109 in 2023
Top 5%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

10 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score +0.33.

Idea: 5 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful piping and terminal integration

    From 3 comments
    • Piping prompt is an great use case, that makes a lot of sense actually. Love it.
      karmasimida on HN
    • Nice!, piping from and to chatgpt is really powerful. If you use tmux, you can pipe in `tmux capture-pane -p -S -` to ask questions about commands and outputs you have just run…
      kinfolk0117 on HN
    • Best cli gpt tool, I've seen, so far. Thank you very much for this.
      noonething on HN
  • Good feature set and clean ASCII output

    From 2 comments
    • Best cli gpt tool, I've seen, so far. Thank you very much for this.
      noonething on HN
    • Nice, will try this out. The ascii formatting looks good on this one I made something quite similar, this can also run commands and has syntax highlighting…
      simon_rider on HN

Objections

  • Authentication failed with API key due to .netrc interference in requests library

    From 2 comments
    • This looks great. However, after generting an API key and providing it to chatblade, I get the following error: openai.error.AuthenticationError: Incorrect API key provided:…
      lynx23 on HN
    • Found it! I need to set NETRC=/dev/null. It appears the request library is trying to grab auth info from .netrc, and in my case, picks the default entry. Why it is doing that…
      lynx23 on HN
  • Interactive mode leaves bounding box characters when copying code

    From 1 comment
    • If I used this in interactive mode, and generate a code snippet, then try to copy it, it will have | the bounding box and the beginning and end of lines |
      totetsu on HN

Requests

  • Support for ChatGPT Plus web session authentication

    From 1 comment
    • There have been addons that were able to use the web interface to get authorization (ex: ChatGPT4Google). I was hoping some similar session authentication and cache and make them…
      wanderingmind on HN

Questions

  • Is there a similar tool that works with ChatGPT Plus accounts?

    From 2 comments
    • Is there a similar tool that works for a chatgpt plus account?
      wanderingmind on HN
    • The $20/mo plus only gets you features that you can access in the web interface. It is independent from the API usage that bills by the query. Anything you can get from the API,…
      humanistbot on HN

Alternatives named

  • aichat (Rust)

    From 1 comment
    • Same thing happened to me two weeks ago... Released clevercli[0] only to find out aichat[1] had more features and written in Rust. [0] https://github.com/clevercli/clevercli [1]…
      olalonde on HN
  • clevercli

    From 1 comment
    • Same thing happened to me two weeks ago... Released clevercli[0] only to find out aichat[1] had more features and written in Rust. [0] https://github.com/clevercli/clevercli [1]…
      olalonde on HN
  • shell-genie

    From 1 comment
    • Shell Genie is my favorite. It actually runs the commands if you want. https://github.com/dylanjcastillo/shell-genie
      behnamoh on HN
  • codegpt

    From 1 comment
    • Hacking on something similar, but specifically for operating on source files https://github.com/icholy/codegpt (it's in a very rough state)
      icholy on HN
  • hey-chatgpt-cli

    From 1 comment
    • Nice, will try this out. The ascii formatting looks good on this one I made something quite similar, this can also run commands and has syntax highlighting…
      simon_rider on HN

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