justanman / clickbait

Screenshot clickbait news articles via the command line.

clickbait

Deny publishers of clickbait articles / hit pieces advertising revenue by taking a screenshot to share on social media.

One click, many reads.

Installation

Via npm

$ npm install -g clickbait-cli

Usage

$ clickbait
Usage: clickbait [URL...]

Options:
  --help     Show help                                                 [boolean]
  --version  Show version number                                       [boolean]

$ clickbait https://www.nytimes.com/
Saved screenshot as 1582096271173.png

Contributing

Please do! Multiple URLs, Imgur API upload, etc.

clickbait's Issues

Skip Chromium install

When you install Puppeteer, it downloads a recent version of Chromium (~170MB Mac, ~282MB Linux, ~280MB Win) that is guaranteed to work with the API. Is it possible to skip if Chrome is already installed?