Epub News

Retrieve RSS feeds from online media and create an eBook. A better way to read news on e-ink tablets !

Written in Node.js and Typescript, it creates a cli tool called epub_news that you can run to generate your ebook news.

So far, it can retrieve the latest news from Le Monde (list of their rss feeds here) and Gamekult.

⚠️ Le Monde has both public and member articles. I encourage you to help them if you can! Also, some articles behind a paywall will require you to set your website cookie in order to be retrieved.

Installation

To install the epub_news cli, simply run npm install -g epub_news. It will install the cli tool globally which you can execute by running epub_news in your terminal.

Configuration

In order to run, epub_news needs a config file with important information such as the RSS feeds you want to retrieve for your eBook. You'll need to create an .env file with these info:

RSS_FEEDS=https://www.lemonde.fr/rss/une.xml,other,feed,comma,separated
DEFAULT_EXPORT_PATH=/your/epub/export/path # Optional
LE_MONDE_COOKIE="Use your account cookie to be able to retrieve all news from Le Monde" # Optional

Usage

epub_news [options]

Options:
  -V, --version        Print the version number
  -i, --interactive    Select which article to keep in the news feeds (default: false)
  -p, --path <path>    Default path for epub export (default: "./")
  -t, --title <title>  Ebook title (default: "today's date")
  -e, --envPath <path> Path to the env file to load (default: "./.env")
  -d, --debug          Debug options (default: false)
  -v, --verbose        Print all app operations in terminal (default: true)
  -h, --help           Show tool help

Development

If you fixed a bug or just want to add a new media source, feel free to help !

First, download the source, then run npm install to install the dev dependencies.

You'll also need to create a .env file as described in the configuration section.

When you're done, you should be able to build the project with npm run build and run it with npm run start.