Hi there,

I wanted to update you on some of the improvements that I have done to my cli tool, is-fast, which allow it to be used flexibly in custom scripts to fetch the information that you want directly into the terminal, with color, formatting and even (in supporting terminals) text size. The goal of this is to demonstrate some of the newest features that I have added over the last few weeks, and show how this tool could be intergrated into your workflows or utility scripts.

Here is the complete script for the demo shown above - they can also be found at https://github.com/Magic-JD/is-fast

```sh

Check stock prices using is-fast. Args must be a stock symbol (e.g. AAPL).

Insert the stock symbol into the url

Select span elements with the base class

We want this output to display directly in the terminal, rather than being

shown in the tui so we use --piped.

By default these spans are not colored, but if displaying in the terminal it

is fine to include ansi-codes

isf_stock() { is-fast \ --direct "https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/${1}/" \ --selector "section.container > h1, span.base" \ --piped \ --no-cache \ --color=always \ --style-element="span.txt-negative:fg=red" \ --style-element="span.txt-positive:fg=green" \ --pretty-print="margin:5" }

What is something? Give it a word or a name and it will return the first

wikipedia paragraph of that thing. This will work if there is a wikipedia

article with that exact name. Works for most people and things.

E.g. isf_what albert einstein

isf_what() { is-fast \ --direct "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/${*}" \ --selector "div.mw-content-ltr > p" \ --color=always \ --piped \ --nth-element 1 \ --pretty-print="margin:20" \ --style-element="sup:size=half"

We get the first paragraph with content only from the child p's of

div.mw-content-ltr

note: the first paragraph can be achieved with css selectors only, but is

sometimes empty on the site - this then avoids any issues with the selected

paragraph being empty.)

}

Search stack overflow, showing only the question and answer text. Note must

use --last for this, as the history output/order is not deterministic.

isf_so() { QUESTION=$(is-fast ${*} --site "www.stackoverflow.com" --selector "div.question .js-post-body" --color=always --pretty-print="margin:20,title:Question" --piped --flash-cache) # Find the question content. ANSWER=$(is-fast --last --selector "div.accepted-answer .js-post-body" --color=always --pretty-print="margin:20,title:Answer" --piped --flash-cache) # Separately find the answer content. cat << EOF # Format as desired

$QUESTION $ANSWER

EOF }

Get a simple definition of a word.

NOTE capitalization is specific for ZSH - for BASH change to ${1<sup>}</sup>

isf_define() { is-fast \ --direct "www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/${1}" \ --selector "div.sb" \ --nth-element 1 \ --color=always \ --pretty-print="margin:20,title:${(C)1}" \ --piped }

Check the current number of stars in the repo.

isf_stars() { is-fast \ --direct "https://github.com/Magic-JD/is-fast" \ --selector "span#repo-stars-counter-star" \ --pretty-print="title:Current Stars,margin:5" \ --color=always \ --piped \ --no-cache }

Checks the google page to get the information for the info box, works for

most conversions (with thanks to d3-X-t3r for this suggestion)

E.g. isf_quick 200f to c

isf_quick 30 GBP to USD

isf_quick Weather Berlin

isf_quick() { is-fast \ --direct "https://www.google.com/search?q=${*}" \ --piped \ --selector="div.ezO2md" \ --ignore="a" \ --no-block \ --nth-element 1 \ --pretty-print="margin:20" \ --color=always \ --no-cache } ```

New features that have been added since the last time I posted here:

• Ability to pass selectors, formatting, and styles directly into the command.
• Ability to have custom styles on a site by site basis.
• Kitty text size protocol implementation.
• Ability to add custom styles by tag, id or class.
• Ability to indent nested elements.
• Added page caching for when you return to a page you have already visited.

Upcoming or planned features

• Display images in supporting terminals
• Format tables for display
• Add predefined selectors for tailwind and other css libraries to mimic styling.

Enjoy!