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APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com> writes:

> I was wondering if there is any method to doing this from command
> line? I often don't have a web-browser available to me when working on
> the console. I'd be willing to write a script to display a changelog,
> but I'm not even sure where to get it from in the first place, other
> than that website.

I generally use ports-mgmt/bpkg's `bpkg -F <port>` -- it launches
freshports.org's entry for the given port in w3m in the console
(assuming console browsers are OK for your case).