goosepaper 0.2.0

Generate and deliver a daily newspaper PDF

a daily newsfeed delivered to your remarkable tablet

what's up

goosepaper is a utility that delivers a daily newspaper to your remarkable tablet. that's cute!

you can include RSS feeds, Twitter feeds, news articles, wikipedia articles-of-the-day, weather, and more. I read it when I wake up so that I can feel anxious without having to get my phone.

installation

dependencies:

this tool uses weasyprint to generate PDFs. You can install all of the python libraries you need with pip3 install -r ./requirements.txt from this repo, but you may need these prerequisites before getting started.

more details here.

mac:

brew install cairo pango gdk-pixbuf libffi

ubuntu-flavored:

sudo apt-get install build-essential python3-dev python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-wheel python3-cffi libcairo2 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libffi-dev shared-mime-info

windows:

Follow these instructions carefully.

and then:

From inside the goosepaper repo,

pip3 install -e .

get started

You can customize your goosepaper by editing config.json. (More instructions, and customization tools, all coming soon!)

goosepaper --config myconfig.json --output mypaper.pdf

If you don't pass an output flag, one will be generated based upon the time of generation. You DO need to pass a config file for now.

An example config file is included here: example-config.json.

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Check out this example PDF, generated on Nov 1 2020.

existing story providers (want to write your own?)

• Wikipedia Top News / Current Events
• Tweets (Note: Currently borked, see Issue #5)
• Weather. These stories appear in the "ear" of the front page, just like a regular ol' newspaper
• RSS Feeds
• Reddit Subreddits

More Questions, Infrequently Asked

yes but pardon me — i haven't a remarkable tablet

Do you have another kind of tablet? You may generate a print-ready PDF which you can use on another kind of robot as well! Just remove the last line of main.py.

very nice! may i have it in comic sans?

yes! you may do anything that you find to be fun and welcoming :)

Check out the styles.Styles enum in the goosepaper library. You will find there what you seek.

do all dogs' names start with the letter "B"?

I do not think so, but it is a good question!

may i use this to browse twitter?

yes you may! you can add a list of usernames to the feed generator and it will make a print-ready version of twitter. this is helpful for when you are on twitter on your laptop but wish you had Other Twitter as well, in print form.

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