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Re: Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

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Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #35
lorenzohess wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The pdftk program makes it super easy to merge PDFs if CLI meets your use case.

I had a lot of pdfs and so a single drag and drop of web would've made more sense and in fact initially I thought of some golang tool that is just a simple http wrapper over the cli too.

> I had a lot of pdfs and so a single drag and drop of web would've made more sense and in fact initially I thought of some golang tool that is just a simple http wrapper over the cli too.

Depending in your file manager, drag and drop might work on shell scripts too. Even multiple files.

TBH, when I last needed something like that I simply called zenity from my shell script.

Re: Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

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kimbler wrote: post #38

I do a similar thing with https://www.thateasy.me/ I use it to test the latest coding/automation tools. I think I prefer your design :)

I've been wanting to create a similar holiday optimizer tool myself, but what you've done is marvelous! Do you take requests for new countries? I see that you're using https://date.nager.at/ as the source and country is listed, so perhaps it's easily doable?

Re: Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

lelanthran wrote: post #54
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a lot of pdfs and so a single drag and drop of web would've made more sense and in fact initially I thought of some golang tool that is just a simple http wrapper over the cli too.

> I had a lot of pdfs and so a single drag and drop of web would've made more sense and in fact initially I thought of some golang tool that is just a simple http wrapper over the cli too. Depending in your file manager, drag and drop might work on shell scripts too. Even multiple files. TBH, when I last needed something like that I simply called zenity from my shell script.

Hm I didn't know drag and drop could work on shell scripts too!

That's something new!!

OHHH that's actually really cool to have zenity, Wow. I didn't know about this...

Is this thing cross platform? I like it if you are saying that it would open up a drag and drop box and then merge the pdf's

Definitely a bit harder than what I had cooked but I respect it, I might use zenity or some gui-esque option to convert cli's into gui of sorts y'know..

But my tool is just some lines of golang which can be go mod init go mod tidy go run . and it would open up localhost port and can even be accessed through other devices on the same network but your thing is really cool too

Can you though please share me the shell scripts or something so that I don't have to write the shell scripts when I need in the time of need y'know?

Like your approach is nice too and something to know in the back of my mind too

Re: Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

jerbear4328 wrote: post #36
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #29

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there is also uh, god, I always forget its name whenever I want to use it.... AHHHHH YESS, I FINALLY REMEMBERED IT AFTER 5 minutes of thinking. https://cobalt.tools This has definitely helped me a lot in a lot of times when I didn't have my pc or just in general too, their api was also pretty hackable too actually and they support more than youtube Btw did I mention its open source? Tho the last time I did try to ins…

The instance https://cobalt.meowing.de is currently working for YouTube, which is very useful

thanks, didn't knew but I guess, its great!

Another thing I like about cobalt is the api, I had cooked something that could be a bang in duckduckgo of sorts that would download the video from the api of cobalt but I just couldn't deliver the bang and also I needed some custom facing thing in the background but now I think that I can have something like cloudflare.

Imagine having this thing in browser where !yt-dlp just downloads it or refers us to a working cobalt instance y'know.

I might build something like this for cf workers or smth. What are your thoughts?

Re: Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

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Post by lelanthran »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #56
lelanthran wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I had a lot of pdfs and so a single drag and drop of web would've made more sense and in fact initially I thought of some golang tool that is just a simple http wrapper over the cli too. Depending in your file manager, drag and drop might work on shell scripts too. Even multiple files. TBH, when I last needed something like that I simply called zenity from my shell script.

Hm I didn't know drag and drop could work on shell scripts too! That's something new!! OHHH that's actually really cool to have zenity, Wow. I didn't know about this... Is this thing cross platform? I like it if you are saying that it would open up a drag and drop box and then merge the pdf's Definitely a bit harder than what I had cooked but I respect it, I might use zenity or some gui-esque option to convert cli's…

> Hm I didn't know drag and drop could work on shell scripts too!

Depends on the file manager. I use Caja which is fairly ancient, and supports this, so I expect newer file managers to support it too.

For PDFs, something like this might work (note: not tested)

     #!/bin/bash

     pdftk $@ cat output output.pdf verbose &> /tmp/output
> that's actually really cool to have zenity, Wow. I didn't know about this...

> Is this thing cross platform? I like it if you are saying that it would open up a drag and drop box and then merge the pdf's

Not sure if zenity is x-platform; what I did do once when I needed to select multiple files was have the shell script sit in a loop calling zenity, appending filenames to a variable, and then display a confirmation with a "Process" button before performing the actual processing.

ISTR using zenity for display the file selection dialogs, the confirmation dialog and a progress indicator while processing.

> But my tool is just some lines of golang which can be go mod init go mod tidy go run . and it would open up localhost port and can even be accessed through other devices on the same network but your thing is really cool too

Yeah, I just needed something temporarily for the operators to use during a build process. Wasn't going to need network access, nor did I want to add in a new dependency by using Python or something.

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