Converts unread Newsboat items to HTML for reading outside of a terminal. You will need DuckDB to query Newsboat's SQLite3 cache database.
You can use nix-shell shell.nix that will provide Golang and DuckDB.
Example output: Check how the example output looks like at https://mitjafelicijan.github.io/nbtohtml/.
To build the software you do go build .. This will produce nbtohtml
binary.
The procedure to convert:
- use Duckdb to get unread articles
- pipe to
nbtohtml - save to out HTML file
duckdb -json ~/.newsboat/cache.db "SELECT * FROM rss_item WHERE unread=1;" | nbtohtml > out.htmlnbtohtml allows you to provide your own template file with a flag
-template. Usage would then be nbtohtml -template mytemplate.html.
You can use the template below as a boilerplate. This template is included with the application.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
<title>Newsboat</title>
<style>
* {
white-space: normal;
}
body {
font-family: sans-serif;
padding: 2em;
white-space: normal;
}
.nb-article-list {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 2em;
}
.nb-article-list * {
font-size: inital!important;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<section class="nb-article-list">
{{ range .Items }}
<article>
<h1>
<a href="{{ .Url }}" target="_blank">{{ .Title }}</a>
</h1>
<div style="text-decoration:underline; margin-bottom:1em;">
{{ if ne .Author "" }}By {{ .Author }} on{{ end }}
{{ .PubDate }}
</div>
<div style="margin-left:4em;">
{{ .Content }}
</div>
</article>
{{ end }}
</section>
</body>
</html>nbtohtml was written by Mitja Felicijan and is released under the BSD two-clause license, see the LICENSE file for more information.