Howto

CLI tool for finding coding answers instantly by scraping from StackOverflow.

Installation

Building from source

Please use Swift version 5.6 or newer.

git clone https://github.com/ilaumjd/howto.git
cd howto
swift build -c release

The executable will be created in the .build/release/ directory.

• Other installation method is coming soon

Usage

howto -h

Arguments and Options

ARGUMENTS:
  <query>                 Coding question you want to ask

OPTIONS:
  -e, --engine <engine>   Search engine to use (google, bing) (default: google)
  -n, --num <num>         Number of answers to return (default: 1)
  -l, --link              Show source link of the answer
  -b, --bat               Pipe output to bat for syntax highlighting
  --version               Show the version.
  -h, --help              Show help information.

Syntax Highlighting

You can use bat for syntax highlighting, please refer the installation guide on their GitHub repository (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat).

TODOs

• Basic search feature
• Select search engine
• bat syntax highlighting
• Configuration file
• Answer caching
• Make a separate library
• Get answer from another sources

Notes

This project is heavily inspired by howdoi.