# michael-lazar/rtv

Browse Reddit from your terminal

Repository: https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rtv
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: python, terminal, reddit-client, curses, reddit, command-line, tui
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-02-20T15:57:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4224, "days_push": 1290, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4645, forks 281 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:55.550774+00:00)

## What it is
Reddit Terminal Viewer (RTV) is a text-based interface (TUI) for browsing and interacting with Reddit from the terminal, built in Python with curses. The project is no longer maintained and its development has been shut down.

## Use cases
- browse reddit from the terminal
- read reddit comments in a tui
- vote and reply to reddit posts from the command line
- navigate subreddits with vim keybindings
- open reddit media links with mailcap

## When to choose
- you want a keyboard-driven, vim-style Reddit client in a POSIX terminal
- you need a lightweight curses-based Reddit viewer on Linux or macOS

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained or actively supported client
- you are on Windows, which is not supported
- you need OAuth features that may break as Reddit's API evolves

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: terminal-ui, http-client
- domain: social-media, developer-tools
- platform: cli, python
- tags: reddit-client, tui, curses, unmaintained, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- michael-lazar/rtv (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:55.550774+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:19:32.290540+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:55.550774+00:00, sha 44f4d002241a)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/rtv/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:04:08.400968+00:00, sha 4a1ff07ea2b2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.