url2epub
ArchiveBox
url2epub | ArchiveBox | |
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63 | 19,861 | |
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7.8 | 9.8 | |
about 2 months ago | 3 days ago | |
Go | Python | |
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT |
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url2epub
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Show HN: CLI for generating beautiful PDF for offline reading
Somewhat similarly, I wrote a web app to generate epub (instead of pdf) out of urls and send to eink reader(s) directly (via a telegram bot) so I can read them. Currently it supports sending epub by email (for kindle) or uploading epub to dropbox (for kobo, etc.). It originally also supports reMarkable cloud but we can no longer make reMarkable cloud actually work. There's also a REST api to generate epub to be downloaded directly: https://github.com/fishy/url2epub/blob/main/REST.md
For e-ink readers epubs are generally better than PDFs for urls anyways, as epubs are basically packed htmls, and also the flow text works better on smaller screens.
- Omnivore – free, open source, read-it-later App
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Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
I wrote a service (Google Cloud Run as the backend, with Telegram bot as the frontend) to generate readable ePub from URLs and send directly to e-ink readers. It was originally wrote for reMarkable 2 (using reMarkable cloud), I recently added support for Kindle (by using the send-to-kindle emails). The code is at https://github.com/fishy/url2epub and I blogged about the recently added kindle support at https://b.yuxuan.org/url2epub-kindle.
I'm open to suggestions on what other e-ink platforms to add, as long as they have a reasonable cloud API. I'm also looking for a good e-ink platform to move to personally, as it becomes apparent that reMarkable really doesn't want third parties to use their proprietary cloud "API".
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ReMarkable 2
2. It's a relatively open system (compared to other e-ink readers), so it's pretty fun in terms of hackability.
I did get the forever free subscription which helps, but I also totally understand why they would want to charge for that, and I think the new $3/month is a pretty reasonable price for it.
Regarding instapaper use case and also hackability, shameless plug: I wrote https://github.com/fishy/url2epub for my own use case, so instead of relying on a third party service and manually sync stuff to reMarkable 2, I just send the link to the telegram bot (I picked telegram bot so that I can easily send links from my phone, not only desktops), and the epub will be auto synced to my reMarkable cloud account (they did made some changes to the cloud api causing I have to manually open their official mobile or desktop app to sync once before the reMarkable 2 itself would accept the new epub I uploaded through url2epub, haven't figured out how to avoid that yet, but it's still mostly automated).
- Instructions on how to send articles from your iPhone to reMarkable
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Zenreader: A 4.7 Inches E-Ink RSS Reader Powered by ESP32
For reMarkable, I also wrote a Telegram bot to convert http url into ePub and send to reMarkable directly: https://github.com/fishy/url2epub
(if you don't like telegram or don't use reMarkable, it also comes with a public rest API to generate epub out of urls)
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Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, ePub to mobi, ePub to kindle, and an ePub API
Shameless plug and this is only loosely related: Over the last holiday season I wrote a backend (written in Go and running on App Engine) to convert http url into epub. The frontend is a telegram bot that sends the epub to your reMarkable account directly, but it also has rest api to download the epub file: https://github.com/fishy/url2epub/blob/main/REST.md
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Show HN: Create ePub Out of URL
With the purchase of reMarkable 2, I have this need to easily send web articles to my reMarkable 2 from my phone, while officially they only provided a Chrome extension, which can only be used on desktops.
As a result I wrote some go code (https://github.com/fishy/url2epub) for the past 2 days, to generate ePub from URL. I also implemented reMarkable API to send them to reMarkable tablets directly.
The current UI for it is implemented as a Telegram bot (https://t.me/url2rM_bot?start=1), running on AppEngine (code: https://github.com/fishy/url2epub/tree/main/appengine). I initially considered making an Android app for the UI, but decided that Telegram bot is less work for me, and works good enough for this use case (sorry for people who don't use Telegram, but this also means that people on iOS, desktop, etc. will be able to use it).
For the future, I might do:
- Expand the URLs supported (currently it only supports URLs with an AMP version provided, and the AMP version does have article tag inside)
ArchiveBox
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Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition?
Two projects I greatly appreciate, allowing me to easily archive my bandcamp and GOG purchases (after the initial setup anyways):
https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader
https://github.com/Kalanyr/gogrepoc
And I recently learned about archivebox, which I think is going to be a fast favorite and finally let me clear out my mess of tabs/bookmarks: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
- YaCy, a distributed Web Search Engine, based on a peer-to-peer network
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Vice website is shutting down
If you really want to save the content for yourself, use something like https://archivebox.io/
I've been running a local instance for a few years now and download/save tech articles all time. I can search and find them as needed.
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An Introduction to the WARC File
API is coming soon (relatively, it's still a one-man project)! Stay tuned https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/496
I have an event-sourcing refactor in progress now to allow us to pluginize functionality like the API (similar to Home Assistant with a plugin app sotre), it will take a month or two. Next up is the REST API using the new plugin system.
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Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?
I guess your best chance is to use something like https://archivebox.io/.
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ArchiveBox – open-source self-hosted web archiving
Yeah this is a cool project but it was discussed 2 days ago.
As mentioned by the maintainer there, they even maintain a list of alternatives, very classy:
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-...
- ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving
- Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site
- Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
- Bookmark manager with a focus on organization?
What are some alternatives?
M5Paper_FactoryTest
Wallabag - wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.
lines-are-beautiful - C++ File API for the reMarkable tablet
paimon-moe - Your best Genshin Impact companion! Help you plan what to farm with ascension calculator and database. Also track your progress with todo and wish counter.
KindleUnpack - python based software to unpack Amazon / Kindlegen generated ebooks
SingleFile - Web Extension for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file
seleneCMSBundle - Add CMS functionality to your Symfony Apps
ArchivesSpace - The ArchivesSpace archives management tool
is - an inspector for your environment
grab-site - The archivist's web crawler: WARC output, dashboard for all crawls, dynamic ignore patterns
golang-samples - Sample apps and code written for Google Cloud in the Go programming language.
Archivematica - Free and open-source digital preservation system designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects.