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Paperoni is a web article downloader written in Rust. The downloaded articles are then exported as EPUB files. Paperoni is a web article downloader written in Rust. The downloaded articles are then exported as EPUB files.
> This project is in an alpha release so it is pretty unstable. > This project is in an alpha release so it might crash when you use it. Please open an [issue on Github](https://github.com/hipstermojo/paperoni/issues/new) if it does crash.
## Installation
### Precompiled binaries
Check the [releases](https://github.com/hipstermojo/paperoni/releases) page for precompiled binaries. Currently there are only builds for Debian and Arch.
### Installing from crates.io
Paperoni is published on [crates.io](https://crates.io). If you have [cargo](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo) installed, then run:
```sh
cargo install paperoni --version 0.3.0-alpha1
```
_Paperoni is still in alpha so the `version` flag has to be passed._
### Building from source
This project uses `async/.await` so it should be compiled using a minimum Rust version of 1.33. Preferrably use the latest version of Rust.
```sh
git clone https://github.com/hipstermojo/paperoni.git
cd paperoni
## You can build and install paperoni locally
cargo install --path .
## or use it from within the project
cargo run -- # pass your url here
```
## Usage ## Usage
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cat links.txt | xargs paperoni cat links.txt | xargs paperoni
``` ```
These can also be read from a file using the `-f` flag. These can also be read from a file using the `-f/--file` flag.
```sh ```sh
paperoni -f links.txt paperoni -f links.txt
``` ```
### Merging articles
By default, Paperoni generates an epub file for each link. You can also merge multiple links
into a single epub using the `merge` flag and specifying the output file.
```sh
paperoni -f links.txt --merge out.epub
```
## How it works ## How it works
The URL passed to Paperoni is fetched and the returned HTML response is passed to the extractor. The URL passed to Paperoni is fetched and the returned HTML response is passed to the extractor.
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- Websites that only run with JavaScript cannot be extracted. - Websites that only run with JavaScript cannot be extracted.
- Website articles that cannot be extracted by Readability cannot be extracted by Paperoni either. - Website articles that cannot be extracted by Readability cannot be extracted by Paperoni either.
- Code snippets on Medium articles that are lazy loaded will not appear in the EPUB. - Code snippets on Medium articles that are lazy loaded will not appear in the EPUB.
## Running locally
### Precompiled binaries
Check the [releases](https://github.com/hipstermojo/paperoni/releases) page for precompiled binaries. Currently there are only builds for Debian and Arch.
### Building from source
This project uses `async/.await` so it should be compiled using a minimum Rust version of 1.33. Preferrably use the latest version of Rust.
```sh
git clone https://github.com/hipstermojo/paperoni.git
cd paperoni
## You can build and install paperoni locally
cargo install --path .
## or use it from within the project
cargo run -- # pass your url here
```