Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Mark Eichin @eichin@mastodon.mit.edu

4/12/2025, 8:46:03 PM

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Ooh, TIL about https://github.com/wader/fq (packaged in debian/ubuntu as fq.) "jq for binaries" - for example fq -crV '.program_headers[1].data' /bin/ls - but it also has an html parser, so curl | fq -r -d html '.html.head.meta[]|select(."@property" == "og:description")."@content"' gets the OpenGraph thumbnail description. (This would have been helpful back in December, I ended up writing a helper script that used BeautifulSoup - which was probably still the correct choice in the end :-)

GitHub - wader/fq: jq for binary formats - tool, language and decoders for working with binary and text formats

jq for binary formats - tool, language and decoders for working with binary and text formats - wader/fq

github.com · GitHub

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