twominutepapers
A command line for twominutepapers.
twominutepapers is a single pure-Go binary. It reads public twominutepapers data
over plain HTTPS, shapes it into clean records, and prints output that pipes
into the rest of your tools. No API key, nothing to run alongside it.
The same package is also a resource-URI driver,
so a host program like ant can address
twominutepapers as twominutepapers:// URIs.
Install
go install github.com/tamnd/twominutepapers-cli/cmd/twominutepapers@latest
Or grab a prebuilt binary from the releases, or run
the container image:
docker run --rm ghcr.io/tamnd/twominutepapers:latest --help
Usage
twominutepapers page <path> # fetch one page as a record
twominutepapers page <path> -o json # as JSON, ready for jq
twominutepapers page <path> --template '{{.Body}}' # just the readable body text
twominutepapers links <path> # the pages it links to, one per line
twominutepapers --help # the whole command tree
Every command shares one output contract: -o table|json|jsonl|csv|tsv|url|raw,
--fields to pick columns, --template for a custom line, and -n to limit.
The default adapts to where output goes (a table on a terminal, JSONL in a
pipe), so the same command reads well by hand and parses cleanly downstream.
This is a fresh scaffold. It ships one example resource type, page, wired end
to end. Model the real twominutepapers records in twominutepapers/ and declare their
operations in twominutepapers/domain.go; each one becomes a command, an HTTP
route, and an MCP tool at once.
Serve it
The same operations are available over HTTP and as an MCP tool set for agents,
with no extra code:
twominutepapers serve --addr :7777 # GET /v1/page/<path> returns NDJSON
twominutepapers mcp # speak MCP over stdio
Use it as a resource-URI driver
twominutepapers registers a twominutepapers domain the way a program registers a
database driver with database/sql. A host enables it with one blank import:
import _ "github.com/tamnd/twominutepapers-cli/twominutepapers"
Then ant (or any program that links the package)
dereferences twominutepapers:// URIs without knowing anything about twominutepapers:
ant get twominutepapers://page/<path> # fetch the record
ant cat twominutepapers://page/<path> # just the body text
ant ls twominutepapers://page/<path> # the pages it links to, each addressable
ant url twominutepapers://page/<path> # the live https URL
Development
cmd/twominutepapers/ thin main: hands cli.NewApp to kit.Run
cli/ assembles the kit App from the twominutepapers domain
twominutepapers/ the library: HTTP client, data models, and domain.go (the driver)
docs/ tago documentation site
make build # ./bin/twominutepapers
make test # go test ./...
make vet # go vet ./...
Releasing
Push a version tag and GitHub Actions runs GoReleaser, which builds the
archives, Linux packages, the multi-arch GHCR image, checksums, SBOMs, and a
cosign signature:
git tag v0.1.0
git push --tags
The Homebrew and Scoop steps self-disable until their tokens exist, so the first
release works with no extra secrets.
License
Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.