App that allows you to do periodical or sporadic creation of ebooks with the content of a certain number of news websites and blogs.
Readability and availability. The best from ebooks and mobile phones. - " team members "
The current table displays the production ready sources, but other sources might be in development mode.
| Source | website | epub sample | kindle sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hacker News | news.ycombinator.com | download | download |
| Ask Hacker News | news.ycombinator.com/ask | download | download |
| IndieHackers | indiehackers.com | download | download |
eink.news uses a number of open source projects to work properly:
- node.js - evented I/O for the backend
- Cron - cronjobs in node.js
- fork of mobi-zipper - to create mobi files that the kindle can read
- readability - standard website parsing
Install the dependencies and devDependencies.
$ cd eink.news
$ npm installCreate your env variables and edit them to fill your needs
$ cp .example.env .envIf you have a mac OS, you will also have to link the path where ebook-convert is stored to another path by doing:
$ ln -s /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert /usr/local/bineink.news can either be used for single bundle creations or to be deployed in a server that runs the cronjobs periodically.
To create a single bundle run:
$ PARSER=hackernews npm run parseWhere hackernews can be any source name without spaces and capital letters.
To start the server:
$ npm run startTo run the development server:
$ npm run devTesting: (no tests are specified yet)
$ npm run testWant to contribute? Great!
You should run the npm run dev command previously stated, which will track file changes and rerun the app when there's one.
You can contribute everywhere but we highly recommend creating or improving parsers. By doing so, you are adding more value to the users, which will be able to access more or better content.
For detailed instructions of how parsers work and how to create a new parser, go here.
MIT