gromnitsky / matt-levine

Read Matt Levine's Bloomberg column on Kindle

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 to=[e-mail]

'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 to=[e-mail]

To create .epub files instead of .mobi, add f=epub argument. For help, run ../matt-levine help.

License

MIT