Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog post) and email me the contents

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 15:01:14 -0700
Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anybody know of a piece of software that you can give an URL to,
> and it will then fetch the url and email the contents to you?
> 
> This could be a stand-alone app on the desktop, or a plug-in to a
> browser, or a web site, or some combo.  (I guess it could be a
> pipeline of curl and some mail program, but i'm afraid i'd just get
> piles of incomprehensible text.)

I don't have a completely ready to use solution, but starting with
httrack seems like a promising approach. Constructing some sort of
pipeline along the lines of httrack -> tar -> mail should be simple enough.

> I would plan on sending the mail to my gmail account (for searching
> and archival purposes).
> 
> TIA for any clues.
> 
> dan

Celejar