webkin 1.0.3

Send webpages to your Kindle through terminal

webkin
======

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webkin lets you send webpages to your kindle device through
terminal. Note : Python3+ only.

Installation :
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``pip install webkin``

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Avilable commands :
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To parse URL and send it to your kindle email id.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

``webkin --url``

To change the default directory.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

``webkin --url=<url> --path=</path/to/your/place>``

Example :

``webkin -u=https://medium.com/@mrkaran/my-development-setup-7e767d33fc41 --verbose``

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Pre Installation
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``webkin`` depends on calibre CLI tools and uses ``ebook-convert`` to
convert ``html`` to ``mobi`` format. Please ensure that you have Calibre
installed alongwith CLI tools and ``ebook-convert`` is present in your
PATH. For OSX users, you don't need to do anything besides `installing
Calibre <http://calibre-ebook.com/download_osx>`__. I have tested it on
Ubuntu 16.04 fresh VM and after installing Calibre, it worked fine. If
you install using `this <http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux>`__
method, you need to manually add ``ebook-convert`` to your path, while
if you install it from PPA, it's automatically in your PATH.

::

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/calibre2
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install calibre

`Source <http://askubuntu.com/questions/338172/how-to-install-calibre-on-ubuntu-12-04>`__

First Time Setup
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You need to export tokens to add your ``Amazon Email Address`` (should
be present in your `Approved Personal Document Email
List <https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2019742>`__
), ``Kindle Email Address``, ``Mercury Web Parser API Key``
,\ ``SMTP Hostname and SMTP Port``. The first time setup will guide you
on how to do that.

- To obtain your Mercury Web API key, signup
`here <https://mercury.postlight.com/web-parser/>`__
- If you're using GMail, you need to add ``smtp.gmail.com`` as your
``SMTP_Host_NAME`` while the default port is ``587`` so you can skip
adding that. If you're using any other email provider, you can find a
comprehensive list over
`here <https://www.arclab.com/en/kb/email/list-of-smtp-and-pop3-servers-mailserver-list.html>`__
and add accordingly
- If you're using GMail and have turned on 2FA (which you must
absolutely), you rather need to add an Application Password instead
of your email password. Set a new one over
`here <https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords>`__

Credits
-------

- `calibre <http://calibre-ebook.com/>`__
- `Mercury Web Parser <https://mercury.postlight.com/web-parser/>`__
- [@sathyabhat](https://github.com/SathyaBhat/spotify-dl/blob/master/spotify\_dl/scaffold.py)
for his clean implementation of fetching tokens in a CLI program,
which I have shamlelessly adapted for webkin.

Contributing
------------

Feel free to report any issues and/or send PRs for additional features.

Why ?
-----

Well, there are a couple of tools to already do this task, but I
couldn't find any Open source tool which does it. Though Kindle uses a
``MOBI`` format which itself is closed source, I found the need of a CLI
application to automate this boring task for me. If you're looking for a
tool to do this but don't wanna use a terminal, you can also take a look
at
`this <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for-google/cgdjpilhipecahhcilnafpblkieebhea?hl=en>`__
chrome extension. I like my stuff in the Terminal so I did it :)

License
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MIT © Karan Sharma

`LICENSE included here <LICENSE>`__

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