Termbot is a command-line interface tool for conveniently interacting with OpenAI's GPT-X or Groq's natural language processing system, directly from your terminal. It allows the user to use standard ChatGPT-like question/answer functionality, with added flexibility such as interacting with local file contents, sending large data from STDIN, using custom local instructions, and more.
This past weeks I’ve been rebuilding and extending some capabilities of Termbot, and since its usage can be almost endless, I decided to share some usage examples:
The follwing are just examples; you’ll need to improve the prompts to your own taste and needs.
Case 0: Aliasing Termbot Silent (No banner) for quick access in $HOME/.bashrc or .zshrc:
$ alias t="termbot -s"
Case 1: Summarizing a Blog Post:
Once aliased, copy the raw text contents of a blog post to the clipboard and run:
$ pbpaste | t -p "Summarize this Blog Post in no more than 75 words, and point out the most important takeaways of it"
Case 2: Documenting code:
$ t -p "Generate a README.md for this project /file:app.py pointing out what it does, how to use it, and a general intro to its capabilities | tee README.md"
Case 3: Using Termbot to debug code or finding issues.
For example, an issue I had, which turned out to be an extremely simple mistake which Termbot itself helped me solve in seconds:
$ t -p "For some reason, everytime I execute /file:termbot.py the stderr is 1 even upon successful execution. Where I might be wrongfully returning a stderr of 1?"
Case 4: Summarizing Git Changes and Logs:
This one was super interesting, and I think there may be other useful use cases for Git.
$ git log | t -p "Summarize all Git Changes and Logs"
Case 5: Scraping websites and summarizing their content:
Where “scrape” would be an alias for a simple web scraper tool like the one I made in > WebScraper
$ scrape <url> | t -p "Give me the TL;DR of this information"
Plans for the future, short term
I plan to implement Claude 3 apart from GPT4 to enhance its capabilities and a generic capability of Scraping websites.