Cha - ChatGPT In The Shell

Project’s GitHub Repo

About

Cha is a simple CLI chat tool designed to easily interface with OpenAI’s LLM models through OpenAI’s API. Projects like this are common, but I did not find any that suited my needs. So, I built Cha. I built this tool a little over a month and a half ago and have been using it daily since. If you want to use Cha, check out the project’s GitHub repo (located at the top of this post).

Features

• Basic CLI chat interface with OpenAI’s LLM models.
• Web scraping capability for provided links (supports JavaScript scraping).
• YouTube scraping functionality for extracting video transcripts.
• Answer-Search feature utilizing the Brave API, similar to the Perplexity AI search engine.
  • This feature uses the Brave API as it’s search engine.
  • Click HERE to view a demo of the Answer-Search feature.
• Multi-line support for easy copying and pasting into the CLI.
• Ability to generate images using OpenAI’s image models.
  • Uses CLImage to display images directly in the terminal.
• Supports both interactive and non-interactive chat modes.

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Marketing

Hacker News Posts:

• Show HN: A simple CLI chat tool to easily interface with OpenAI’s LLM models
• Show HN: An easy-to-use CLI tool for interfacing with OpenAI’s models
• Show HN: Cha now supports Answer-Search (Inspired by Perplexity) [video]

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