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lee2sman
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switched backend to readability-cli rather than roll my own
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| bookmobile.fish | switched backend to readability-cli rather than roll my own | 3 minutes ago |
Simple command line script to download articles for offline viewing as markdown, simplified clean HTML and epub.
This is a fishscript (shell) gluing together pandoc and a Node.js package that implements the Firefox reader view. It uses a NPM package that uses Mozilla's own reability javascript. If that's not the right solution for you, jump down to the alternatives section at the end.
Dependencies
- fish
- Pandoc
- Node.js / NPM
Note: you must have the following sub-directories: originals/ reader/ epubs/ markdown/
Install
npm install readability-cli
git clone https://tildegit.org/exquisitecorp/bookmobile.git
cd bookmobile
chmod +x bookmobile.fish
Usage
./bookmobile.fish URL
Output:
A simplified HTML document will be saved to originals. A reader view with chosen (or default) theme will be saved to reader/. An epub in epubs/ and a markdown file to markdown sub-directory.
To change themes
The themes subdirectory contains several custom simple themes for rendering a nice reader view. You can edit these or add your own custom theme to this folder. Change the theme selection in line 3 of the bookmobile.fish file.
Alternatives
Currently there are a number of CLI programs that are ports of the Readability project. These may serve your needs better.
A partial listing can be found here