Feature Request - quick-response from stdin or a parameter

[tekemperor]

First, I just want to thank you for making this. Being able to talk to Bard in the terminal is a great productivity booster for me.

I have aliased the launch command python3 -m Bard --session SESSION to bard. I would like to be able to type one of the following to get the response on stdout instead of starting a chat session.

• bard "What is the orbital period of Neptune?"
• echo "What is the orbital period of Neptune?" | bard -
• bard -f ./long-question.txt | ./long-answer.txt
• cat ./long-question.txt | bard - | ./long-answer.txt

Is there a way to do this?

[tekemperor]

Well that was fast. Since you added the "BARD_QUICK" variable check, I was able to make this bash function that does exactly what I want.

# USAGE1: bard QUESTION
# USAGE2: echo "QUESTION" | bard
bard () {
    export BARD_QUICK=true
    export BARD_SESSION=<REDACTED>.
    python3 -m Bard "${@:-$(</dev/stdin)}" | tail -n+7
}