koundinya / hermes

A tool to send link links to kindle

Hermes

Details

https://blog.koundinya.xyz/posts/meet-hermes/

Flow

Components

1. Email - Sendgrid
2. Bot Framework - telegraf
3. Deployments - Github Actions + Heroku

Requirements

1. Whitelist an email to receive content on your Kindle. (https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/email)

2. Create a send grid account and register a Sender identity (https://app.sendgrid.com/settings/sender_auth)

3. Create a telegram account

Environment Variables

1. BOT_TOKEN - Request the Botfather for an API key - https://core.telegram.org/bots#6-botfather

2. EMAIL_DESTINATION - The kindle email that you have whitelisted.

3. EMAIL_SOURCE - The email address registered with send grid.

4. SENDGRID_API_KEY - https://app.sendgrid.com/settings/api_keys

Running

1. Assuming you have the above mentioned env variables are setup, run -

docker-compose up