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November 11, 2020 12:28
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Convert daily New York Times frontpage to jpg
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| <?php | |
| // set the output-file | |
| $outputfile = "/var/www/nyt/nyt.jpg"; | |
| // set path to todays NYT frontpage | |
| $pathToPdf="https://static01.nyt.com/images/".date('Y')."/".date('m')."/".date('d')."/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf"; | |
| // check if there is any today | |
| $file_headers = @get_headers($pathToPdf); | |
| if(!$file_headers || $file_headers[0] == 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found') { | |
| $exists = false; | |
| } | |
| else { | |
| $exists = true; | |
| } | |
| // if there's none today, get yesterdays | |
| if(!$exists) { | |
| $yesterday = date('Y/m/d',strtotime("-1 days")); | |
| $pathToPdf="https://static01.nyt.com/images/".$yesterday."/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf"; | |
| } | |
| // you needed to have Imagick compiled in PHP otherwise this won't work | |
| $im = new Imagick(); | |
| // So this panel is 1440x2550, 600dpi, it doesn't really like PNG so we are converting a PDF to JPG (sue me) | |
| // get it here, compression to nothing, output it | |
| $im->setResolution(600,600); | |
| $im->readimage($pathToPdf); | |
| $im->setImageCompressionQuality(100); | |
| $im->setImageFormat('jpg'); | |
| $im->stripImage(); | |
| $im->scaleImage(1440,2550); | |
| $im->writeImage($outputfile); | |
| $im->clear(); | |
| $im->destroy(); | |
| // and display it with nice margins | |
| ?> | |
| <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="21600"> | |
| <body style="margin-top:-100px;margin-left:-27px"> | |
| <img width=102% height=108% src='<?=$outputfile?>?v=<?=date('Ymdhmi')?>' /> | |
| </body> |
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Hi there,
Your medium post said you used a self-hosted HTML page for the NYT e-ink project. Are you saying you did this using localhost? Or did you run it on a server somewhere? I’m looking to do the same project. Thanks in advance for your help!