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Really interesting project! A few questions:

1. How do you send the document to the Remarkable? My understanding is that Remarkable does not provide any public APIs. Do you use one of the unofficial open-source APIs? 2. Are you using pstmrk.it for tracking purposes? Maybe you can be more explicit about this in the Privacy Policy.

Additionally, the magic link email is landing in my spam inbox. I assume that this might be because you are using an icloud domain.

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0xferruccio 5 days ago | parent [-]

I use rmapi-js (https://github.com/erikbrinkman/rmapi-js) to authenticate, which allows you to get a token you can use to send digests to the device

I use postmark because it's supposed to get emails in your inbox and because I already had an account on it. I'll see what I can do to not make it go in spam :P

Most of the complexity in the product is in:

- Scraping RSS feeds (have to use proxies to extract html and mirror all the images so that I can embed them in the digest)

- Generate PDFs of exactly the right format using Puppeteer (using cloudflare workers for this)

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coronapl 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Super interesting! I can assume that it is quite complex to scrape all of the RSS feeds and build the PDF. I will make sure to play with it.

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eightysixfour 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Doesn’t rmapi-is give you read access to the user’s remarkable library as well?

Any chance you’d be willing to release source code for self-hosting?

	▲	0xferruccio 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Theoretically yes! Unfortunately there's no API with more restrictive permissions :P Good point around releasing the source code for self-hosting. The only painful parts are that I two commercial services here and there for stealth proxying requests to fetch articles like (https://www.scrapingbee.com/) and Puppeteer on Cloudflare Workers (https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/platform...) to generate PDFs, so it's like $50/month to self-host something that actually works But maybe if I open source this others can contribute too and find ways to make this cheaper to run