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

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2016-11-06, Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Miles (and also Dan P and Celejar for other solutions).
>
> Indeed Firefox has an archive format (maybe called 'maff'?), but how
> could you mail it to yourself?
>
> That is, how could you mail the maff without taking your hands off the
> keyboard, or switching apps or something like that?

I used to use a plugin called "Send to Kindle"  that worked (for the
Kindle), but then it stopped working for reasons that escaped me (an
ill-designed and maintained Amazon thingie).

> Ideally, the way it would work is you find a blog post or something
> that you like, then you go to a drop-down menu, and select 'mail this
> to me'.  Are there any plugins that are so savvy?

I wonder if you could use a plugin like the one below and just send the
file to yourself, at which point you might read it with fbreader or some
such.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kindle-it/


> TIA for any info, and thanks again Dan P and Celejar.
>
> dan
>
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Miles Fidelman
><mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
>> On 11/5/16 6:01 PM, 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.)
>>>
>>>
>> Well you might try:
>>
>> curl http://www.foo.com | uuencode page.html | mail myname@mydomain.com
>> or
>> ( echo "Content-Type: text/html"; curl http://www.foo.com) | sendmail
>> myname@mydomain.com
>>
>> Now, if you want all the components of a page - like embedded images and
>> such, or an entire site - then you might explore some of curl's options for
>> downloading a site, pipe that through zip, and email the archive.
>>
>> Or... most browsers will do this for you!
>>
>> --
>> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
>> In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra
>>
>
>


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