Browsing reddit page from URL

[Andre0991]

Hi. Given a reddit URL that points to a discussion (such as 1), would it be possible to browse that with md4rd?
I haven't found any command for this, but I might be missing something.

Use case: I sometimes find reddit threads in Google results in eww. Their rendering is a bit confusing, though. So I'd like to use a specialized packaged for browsing threads.

[ahungry]

I don't think it'd be a hard thing to add better facilities around - for example, just appending a .json to the end of your link/url will enable the querying of the page itself as an API response (https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/wf0t0d/weekly_tips_tricks_c_thread.json), which we can easily plug into the existing render method, as such:

(md4rd--fetch-comments "https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/wf0t0d/weekly_tips_tricks_c_thread.json")

This will produce the md4rd buffer of just that conversation.

A neat addition might be a small function that takes a reddit URL and appends the .json + calls that function (maybe eww has some type of hook where you could bypass the eww rendering/page open event, and instead run this new idea)

[treed]

I believe I have something like this working:

  (defun md4rd-open-post (url &rest _args)
    (md4rd--fetch-comments (concat (string-replace "www" "old" url) ".json")))

  (push (cons
	 (rx line-start "http" (zero-or-one "s") ":https://www.reddit.com/" (one-or-more anychar))
	 #'md4rd-open-post)
	browse-url-handlers))

This is sufficient to cause reddit posts to open in md4rd when I hit b in elfeed-entry.

Note that browse-url-handlers is new to emacs 28; something like this is possible in prior versions, but I don't currently have an example at hand. I can dig it out of my git history if needed.

[Andre0991]

Hi folks.

Great, @treed, thanks for that code snippet.
In my setup, using browse-url-handlers as you did was not enough for making eww open md4rd when opening a reddit link (from a Google search, for example).

However, adding a hook to eww-after-render-hook did the trick.
Example:

(use-package eww
  :preface
  (defvar apt-reddit-url-regex
    (rx line-start "http" (zero-or-one "s") ":https://www.reddit.com/" (one-or-more anychar)))
  (defun apt-open-reddit-if-url-matches ()
    (when (string-match-p apt-reddit-url-regex (or (eww-current-url) ""))
      (md4rd-open-post (eww-current-url))))
  :hook ((eww-after-render-hook . apt-open-reddit-if-url-matches)))

[ahungry]

Awesome, ty for sharing!