Article Archiver

The purpose of this library is to convert online articles and blog posts into local markdown by only preserving:

• article content
• media assets
• meta data

The heavy lifting around scraping is done with Cypress and the content is enhanced with Mozilla Readability.

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Getting Started

⚠️ This library is under development and not expected to work until the TODO's are completed ⚠️

• Installation
• Usage
• Architecture
• TODO

Installation

npm install -g article-archiver

Usage

npx article-archiver <urls>

Architecture

TODO

• setup cypress
• configure cypress to scrape URL's
• implement code cleaner and enhancer
• implement readability
• wire up scraper to enhancer
• setup http server for tmp files
• setup website-scraper
• wire up archiver to save local assets to tmp folder
• setup utf8 and turndown transformers
• wire up transformer to merge meta data and write to output