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Show HN: Kindle-send – CLI to send webpages and files to Kindle

#1

Post by nik5 » Tue, Sep 06, 2022, 3:13 AM UTC

Show HN: Kindle-send – CLI to send webpages and files to Kindle
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#2

Post by nik5 » Tue, Sep 06, 2022, 3:35 AM UTC

Hi, earlier I created it as a wrapper using calibre and percollate. It was not portable at all.

This weekend, re-wrote it in golang to use go-readability for converting HTML to readable content and then build epub from there.

Now, binary can be used directly without worrying about extra dependencies.

Name is kindle-send but it is just pushing epubs via email. So shouldn't be a problem if you're using a different reader that supports receiving ebooks via email.

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#3

Post by dexterlagan » Tue, Sep 06, 2022, 7:02 AM UTC

Thanks so much for making this! I've always had problems sending to my Kindle from different systems. It's a good thing you're not using the MOBI format since Amazon is retiring it. Cheers!

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Post by rsolva » Tue, Sep 06, 2022, 7:04 AM UTC

nik5 wrote: post #2

Hi, earlier I created it as a wrapper using calibre and percollate. It was not portable at all. This weekend, re-wrote it in golang to use go-readability for converting HTML to readable content and then build epub from there. Now, binary can be used directly without worrying about extra dependencies. Name is kindle-send but it is just pushing epubs via email. So shouldn't be a problem if you're using a different read…

Call it epub-send instead. It sounds like a universal enough tool to deserve a more universal name, not connected to a specific product :)

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#5

Post by r1jsheth » Tue, Sep 06, 2022, 9:34 AM UTC

This is pretty good! Previously I used to email, upload file. This is going to be saviour. Anyway to contribute? I would love to help.

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Post by avinassh » Tue, Sep 06, 2022, 1:35 PM UTC

How do you build epubs from the webpages?

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Post by nik5 » Tue, Sep 06, 2022, 1:50 PM UTC

avinassh wrote: post #6

How do you build epubs from the webpages?

Use go-readability to remove noise from webpage --> Download all the images and change their refs to point to local images --> Add the content to epub structure created using go-epub