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A simple Ruby script that uses the Readability API to save articles for offline viewing and storage. Create a Readability API key at https://www.readability.com/settings/account
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| #!/usr/bin/ruby | |
| require 'json' | |
| require 'erb' | |
| require 'open-uri' | |
| # Uncomment these lines if you are having encoding issues on OS X Yosemite | |
| # if RUBY_VERSION =~ /2.0.0/ | |
| # Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8 | |
| # Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8 | |
| # end | |
| template = ERB.new <<-TEMPLATE | |
| <head> | |
| <link href="http://path/to/cool/css/css.css" rel="stylesheet"></link> | |
| </head> | |
| <h1> <a href="<%= art_path %>"><%= title %></a></h1> | |
| <%= content %> | |
| TEMPLATE | |
| dropboxpath = "~/Dropbox/Read_Later/" | |
| path = "https://readability.com/api/content/v1/parser?url=" | |
| URL = `osascript -e 'tell application "Chrome" to get URL of active tab of first window'` | |
| path = path + URL.strip + "&token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" | |
| path = path.strip | |
| buffer = open(path).read | |
| data = JSON.parse(buffer) | |
| title = data["title"] | |
| art_path = data["url"] | |
| content = data["content"] | |
| fh = File.new(File.expand_path(dropboxpath+"#{title}"+".html"),'w+') | |
| fh.puts template.result(binding) | |
| fh.close | |
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