Fetch top articles from HackerNews, pack as EPUB right in your reMarkable device

NOTE: This project is meant to run on reMarkable device, not your PC machine. Since epub files are generated and stored locally, you do not need reMarkable Cloud.

• NodeJS and npm You can easily install both with toltec, a package manager for reMarakble devices:

opkg update
opkg install node-npm

1. Clone repo:

git clone https://github.com/khanhas/hackernews2remarkable

If you don't have git, just download repo zip file and unzip:

wget "https://github.com/khanhas/hackernews2remarkable/archive/main.zip" -O "hackernews2remarkable.zip"
unzip "hackernews2remarkable.zip"

2. Download dependencies:

cd hackernews2remarkable
npm install

3. On your reMarkable device, create a Folder that will be used to store articles. You can name whatever you want, for example, I name it "HackerNews".
   Run following commands to find out what this new folder guid is:

grep -il '"visibleName": ".*HackerNews.*"' /home/root/.local/share/remarkable/xochitl/*.metadata

Your folder id should look somewhat similar to this: 764bceb9-abf1-4229-a025-f0dc59ac5c0c. Copy that id and set it in config.json.

3. Run:

node main.js

4. Restart reMarkable reading app:

systemctl restart xochitl

This project uses a modified version of epub-gen NPM package by cyrilis.