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Which CLI app/utility you wish there was a GUI for? (lemdro.id)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it's: Testdisk (and Photorec) Caddy Netstat Dig Aria2

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 months ago (30 children)

For me it's the other way around I wish there would be better CLI support for GUI apps.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This, but for a Fireshot like tool. Screenshot and pdf of webpages in their entirety by scrolling while shotting. In bulk, with CLI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Do you have a legitimate use-case for this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's also the use cases supported by Linkwarden:

https://lemmy.world/post/17716634

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does this support sites that lazy load content as you scroll?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not sure, search on "screenshot lazy load Fireshot" or "screenshot lazy load Linkwarden" does not turn up anything conclusive.

Do you have an example?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/towards-a-better-way-to-hack-and-test-your-system-components/21075

This one doesn't actually seem to load new network requests, but the way the scrolling works seems to break any other screenshot application I've tried.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Can confirm, tested it with Signal forum, also discourse. Fireshot stops at the end of the current loaded messages (20 of 94) and doesnt scroll further by itself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Dont know if it's illegitimate otherwise 😉

But my user story is like this:

I want to preserve and archive information I used because it's a reflection of the things I did, learned and studied throughout life.

Then my use case are:

Orientation about "events": places to visit on daytrips or holidays (musea, nature, parks, campsites) and looking for practical information and background as well.
Gather a "dossier": info to help make a decision (buying expensive things, how to do home improvement etc)
Building a personal knowledge database: interesting articles and blogs.

My current workflow:

Browse
Bookmark extensively
Download pdf or other content (maps, routes, images) when provided.
Open bookmarks.
Fireshot every webpage to pdf and png
Save everything with a consequent filename (YYYYMMDD - Source - Title)

I would like to automate the last 3 steps of my workflow.

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