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pocket2kindle

  • A thing to convert pocket articles to kindle books and send them to your kindle email
  • If something is missing it will say you (environment variables, softwares in PATH)

Dependencies

  • Build
    • Go
  • Run
    • Calibre: ebook-convert command
    • The authentication tokens as environment variables for pocket and for SMTP server if you specified a destination email
      • TIP: Use a secondary google account because you will need to enable access through insecure applications if using gmail. GMX is also pretty convenient to use this.
      • TIP: Dotenv

The flow

  • There is a background job getting a stream of articles from new to old
  • Another background job parses the articles in memory skipping the ones that aren't parseable until it gets the desired amount
  • After article parsing the book starts being assembled
  • Each article before being added to the book have its images downloaded and added to the book fixing the image references in the HTML
  • After all the articles are stored in the epub file the file is packed.
  • After the epub packaging ebook-convert is started to convert it to mobi (this is required because I didn't found good libraries to create mobi directly)
  • With the mobi file created the epub file is marked as a intermediate file and will be deleted unless you pass -d
  • If the email destination is specified the mobi file is sent using the SMTP server provided. If the mail is successfully sent, the mobi file is marked as a intermediate file.
  • Internediate files are deleted if -d is not provided.
  • Profit!

Advantages

  • It's free
  • You have the exact notion of what stage is your delivery (lots of logs)

Disadvantages

  • Setup authentication to a SMTP server (only done once)
  • Setup authentication via the oauth flow for pocket (only done once too)

More information

Use the --help flag of the program

Ex:

  • go run ./cmd/p2k --help or if in $PATH
  • p2k --help

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