Provide an actual cli command

[polm]

Thanks for making a great package! Was testing it out and ran into an issue so I wanted to provide a suggestion.

The README explains that this package can be run using python -m to test it out on the cli. If instead this provided a cli hook, for example by specifying console_scripts in pyproject.toml, then it could be installed or run with pipx, uv, or similar tools for quick testing.

You can see the official document on the subject. I might be able to do this, but not sure when I'd have the time.

[buriy]

Hi,
It's not "instead", we can have both options.
We can do now python -m readability -u https://example.com , this works fine.
But readability -u https://example.com is not (yet?), so as .venv/bin/readability -u https://example.com.
We can add it, I can implement it in like 10 minutes, but is it much better than python -m readability ?

[polm]

Hey, thanks for the quick reply!

You're right, I shouldn't have said "instead" - I didn't mean to suggest eliminating the current method, just adding the entry point as well.

I was also skeptical about whether this had advantages when I first heard about it, but because specifying console_scripts explicitly says "this is a cli util" there's a fair amount of tooling that can take advantage of it:

• you can install it or run it with pipx, for example pipx run readability-lxml -u https://example.com would work without install
• in uv, uvx or uv tool run does the same thing
• bash completion for the command name works

None of these work with the current setup.

It's not life changing, but when checking to see if a package I just found is what I need, this makes it much easier to use.