morning-paper 0.1.3

Build a personalized daily newspaper as a print-ready PDF.

Morning Paper

Your morning newspaper, built from your own sources.

Morning Paper is a Python CLI that builds a personalized daily paper as a print-ready PDF. It starts with deterministic collectors, writes durable file artifacts, and gives you a newspaper you can actually print and read.

No database. No Docker. No SaaS requirement.

What It Does

• Builds a daily paper from Hacker News and RSS feeds
• Prints one or more articles on demand with morning-paper print <url>
• Produces JSON, Markdown, HTML, and PDF artifacts
• Works without an LLM key
• Uses a richer typewriter renderer when available and falls back cleanly

Quick Start

pip install morning-paper
morning-paper init

For the actual high-quality print path:

pip install "morning-paper[pretty]"
morning-paper build

That writes your paper under:

~/.local/share/morning-paper/<date>/

On macOS, the richer renderer may also need:

brew install pango gdk-pixbuf

Example Commands

# Create a starter config
morning-paper init

# Build today's paper from your configured sources
morning-paper build

# Build a paper for a specific date
morning-paper build --date 2026-04-15

# Print an article right now
morning-paper print https://example.com/article

# Verify the install
morning-paper doctor

# Show the installed version
morning-paper --version

Current Sources

Source	Auth needed?	Status
Hacker News	No	Included
RSS feeds	No	Included
Article URLs	No	Included via print

Rendering

Morning Paper currently supports two renderers:

• typewriter
  • the primary product look
  • requires the pretty print stack
  • uses WeasyPrint
• portable
  • explicit pure Python fallback
  • lower fidelity
  • only use this if you intentionally want the simpler output

Default config:

article_extractor: jina

outputs:
  renderer: typewriter

jina is the current default article extractor, but extraction is now a replaceable backend. The print renderer, validation, image pipeline, and metadata enrichment are designed to survive extractor upgrades.

If typewriter cannot render, Morning Paper now fails clearly instead of silently generating a lower-quality PDF. If you explicitly want the simpler fallback, set:

outputs:
  renderer: portable

Product Shape

Morning Paper is intentionally narrow.

It is:

• a CLI
• file-first
• print-oriented
• local-friendly

It is not:

• a second-brain platform
• a wiki
• a database-heavy personal knowledge system
• a closed feed or recommendation engine

Install for Development

git clone https://github.com/dmthepm/morning-paper.git
cd morning-paper
pip install -e ".[dev]"
python -m pytest tests/
morning-paper doctor

Roadmap

1. Keep improving article print fidelity in the typewriter renderer
2. Add queueing and staging commands for agent-driven daily workflows
3. Add optional LLM scoring without making it a requirement

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Community

• Main Branch: skool.com/main
• Issues: github.com/dmthepm/morning-paper/issues

License

MIT