sync-zeit-to-tolino

This service syncs the latest ZEIT e-paper to the Tolino cloud. It utilizes selenium to access the Zeit and Tolino websites. Currently, only Thalia is supported as a webstore.

This project is based on the following repositories:

• zeit-on-tolino by fgebhart
• zeit-to-tolino by mlux86

The reason for creating a new repository was mainly to have a small lightweight tool that runs in a docker container. For a more sophisticated tool that utilizes GitHub Actions, please refer to the repository by fgebhart.

Usage

You can use docker or respectivley docker-compose to run the synchronisation. This will create a container with a cron job that syncs the e-paper every Wednesday at 18:15 after the release of the new issue.

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/DominikKuenkele/sync-zeit-to-tolino && cd sync-zeit-to-tolino

docker

First export some environment variables:

export ZEIT_USER=<zeit-user>
export ZEIT_PASSWORD=<zeit-password>
export THALIA_USER=<thalia-user>
export THALIA_PASSWORD=<thalia-password>

Then run the following commands to build and start the container:

docker build . -t sync-zeit-to-tolino
docker run -it sync-zeit-to-tolino

docker-compose

Alternatively, you can use docker-compose. First, create a .env file based on .env.example and fill the variables. Then, create the following docker-compose file (you may replace the image by build: . to build it yourself) and run docker-compose up.

version: "3.9"
services:
  sync-zeit-to-tolino:
    image: dominikkuenkele/sync-zeit-to-tolino:latest
    restart: always
    environment:
      - ZEIT_USER='${ZEIT_USER}'
      - ZEIT_PASSWORD='${ZEIT_PASSWORD}'
      - THALIA_USER='${THALIA_USER}'
      - THALIA_PASSWORD='${THALIA_PASSWORD}'

Development

firefox and geckodriver need to be installed on your system. Then, you can clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/DominikKuenkele/sync-zeit-to-tolino && cd sync-zeit-to-tolino

and install all requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

export the environment variables (mentioned in Usage) and run the script:

python src/main.py