while1malloc0 / send-a-kitten

A CLI for sending a picture of a kitten through email

Send-A-Kitten

Have you ever wanted to send someone a kitten of a picture but didn't want to leave your terminal? Well now you don't have to!

Requirements

Send-A-Kitten requires a local SMTP server to be running

Installation

To install simply clone this repository using git clone https://github.com/jturner30/send-a-kitten.git. You can also make an alias to it using echo "alias send_a_kitten=<directory where you cloned the repo>/send_a_kitten" >> ~/.bashrc (change to ~/.zshrc for zsh)

Usage

Sending a random cat picture

send_a_kitten [email protected] [email protected]

Sending a random cat picture with your name attached

send_a_kitten -n YOUR_NAME [email protected] [email protected]

Sending a random cat picture with a nice message attached

send_a_kitten -m "YOUR MESSAGE" [email protected] [email protected]

Attribution

This program relies on the wonderful Cat API to grab its images. Show them some love at http://thecatapi.com

Thanks to Johanna Valente for the inspiration

send-a-kitten's Issues

Cat scratch fever

We should be able to send cat scratch fever instead of cats.