Kindle Daily Digest

Generates Daily Digest from Pocket

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Prerequisite

• Ruby >= 2.x
• Bundler >= 1.x
• Mercury Web Parser API Key
• Pocket API Key and authorized token
• Kindlegen
• ImageMagick (Build with librsvg for SVG support)

Workflow

rake deliver will run the following tasks:

• Fetch unread items from Pocket
• Parse content with Mercury
• Create table of contents and .opf file
• Create mobi file with Kindlegen

Depending on your configuration, daily_digest will deliver the generated MOBI file to your destination in either:

• Copy the mobi to an arbitrary folder called DESTDIR in your .env file for further processing
• Send the mobi file as an email attachment if SMTP server authentication is configured (see below)

You can let IFTTT watch /Kindle subfolder to send to your Kindle personal document free email address.

How To

(On Mac, you'll need to configure bundle to use /usr/local/bin with: bundle config --global system_bindir /usr/local/bin)

bundle install
$EDITOR .env
bundle exec rake deliver

Environment

You will have .env file that looks like:

POCKET_CONSUMER_KEY=1234-abcd
POCKET_ACCESS_TOKEN=a2aa5caa-c000-6ecb-b589-f7daea
MERCURY_API_KEY=2caeae6676796adada6967a5cddcd6a2292
CLEANUP=true

You have to manually authenticate against Pocket OAuth endpoint to get the tokens. I used Pocket-CLI but you can use curl if you want to avoid the dependency.

If you want to directly send email to your Kindle Personal Document, you'll need the following environment variables as well:

[email protected]
[email protected]
SMTP_SERVER=smtp.example.com:587
[email protected]
SMTP_PASSWORD=43829f4cchRRY8

If you want to use Gmail to send the mail, you'll probably need an App Password which you can get from Google Security | App Passwords

Changes from original/upstream project miyagawa/daily_digest

• Removed dependency on Calibre and ImageMagick
• Added generated table of contents, cover image, opf "manifest"
• Added note about dependency on ImageMagick (also in upstream, but not mentioned)
• Removed dependency on Readability (defunct) and switched to Mercury Web Parser

Copyright

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Aubin Paul

License

This software is licensed under the MIT License.