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



Phantomjs? Well, it cant send email, but it does dom manipulation and it exports to pdf. We might be able to remove the navigation bar, ads and etc.

On Nov 7, 2016 09:45, "jeremy bentham" <dnw@eskimo.com> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 03:01:14PM -0700, Dan Hitt 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 would plan on sending the mail to my gmail account (for searching
> and archival purposes).
>
> TIA for any clues.
>
> dan

I use lynx for this; it's not completely automagic, you have to
configure it a little.  And it has the drawback that it doesn't
do _javascript_.

In my case that doesn't matter, but you probably have different
needs.

--
 Dave Williams    dnw@eskimo.com


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