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Read Matt Levine's Bloomberg column on Kindle
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Read Matt Levine's Bloomberg column on Kindle

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gromnitsky/matt-levine
• Owner: gromnitsky
• Created: 2022-09-11T17:02:18.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-07-15T14:00:29.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-07-15T16:26:03.632Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Size: 35.2 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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# matt-levine

Read Matt Levine's Bloomberg column (ARbTQlRLRjE) on Kindle.



Bloomberg RSS feeds contain no articles themselves, only links; raw

html doesn't contain article text either--Bloomberg 'hides' it inside

a script tag, hence this program:

1. fetches the RSS;

2. fetches articles;

3. creates a proper .html file for each article;

4. .html -> .mobi/.epub;

5. optionally sends .mobi/.epub files to your Kindle address.

## Reqs

* GNU Make

* Ruby 3.1+, `gem install nokogiri`

* curl

* mobi creation: Calibre (`ebook-convert` in PATH)

* epub creation: zip(1)

* optionally: mailx(1)

## Usage

Download a bunch of articles to generate .mobi files:

~~~

$ git clone https://github.com/gromnitsky/matt-levine

$ mkdir matt-levine/_out

$ cd !$

$ ../matt-levine

~~~

(In FreeBSD, run the last cmd as `gmake ../matt-levine`.)

This creates multiple directories like so:

~~~

YYYY-MM-DD

├── YYYY-MM-DD.html

├── YYYY-MM-DD.mobi

└── YYYY-MM-DD.raw

~~~

Send a particular article to Kindle (requires mailx(1) installed & a

working local MTA):

    ../matt-levine 2022-08-22/2022-08-22.send [email protected]

'Catch-up' with the articles:

    $ rm rss.xml

    $ ../matt-levine catchup=1 to=@

Run this a couple times a week to detect new articles & automatically

send *only new ones* to Kindle:

    $ rm rss.xml; ../matt-levine [email protected]

To create .epub files instead of .mobi, add `f=epub` argument. For

help, run `../matt-levine help`.

## License

MIT