Send diverse contents to your Kindle 📚️

📌 Overview

That's a way to automatically sync data with your kindle, such as RSS feeds, manga, and too much more.

🎩 Getting Started

This repository is a Github Action so you can configure a cron job with Github Actions to run it and sync the contents with your kindle in the way to prefer.

Below you can see an example of a configuration yaml that syncs contents with kindle every day at midnight (be aware to pass the sender credentials as github secrets to avoid exposing it to the public):

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * *'

jobs:
  kindlefy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Sync kindle contents.
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Kindlefy
        uses: gbkel/kindlefy@v1.4.3
        with:
          kindle_email: 'test@kindle.com'
          sender: '[{ "type": "gmail", "email": "test@gmail.com", "password": "password" }]'
          sources: '[{ "type": "manga", "name": "One Piece" }, { "type": "rss", "url": "https://dev.to/feed" }]'
          storage: '[{ "type": "local", "githubAccessToken": "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}" }]'
          no_duplicated_sync: true

Sender

We recommend you to create a new email to use as a sender since some services need to disable extra auth in other to be able to send emails by smtp.

Core Options

• type - gmail, outlook, smtp - Type of sender to use.
• email - String - Sender email to use to send the documents to kindle.

Gmail

In order to use Gmail, you need to Enable 2FA, Create an App-Specific Password.

• email - String - The email you use to login in gmail.
• password - String - The app-specific password you created for email.

Example:

{
	"type": "gmail",
	"email": "youremail@gmail.com",
	"password": "yourpassword"
}

Outlook

• email - String - The email you use to login in outlook.
• password - String - The password you use to login in outlook.

Example:

{
	"type": "outlook",
	"email": "youremail@outlook.com",
	"password": "yourpassword"
}

SMTP

• host - String - Server host.
• user - String - Server user.
• password - String - Server user's password.
• port - String - Server port.

Example:

{
	"type": "smtp",
	"email": "youremail@mail.com",
	"host": "host",
	"user": "user",
	"password": "password",
	"port": "port"
}

Source

All the sources has some options to customize it during import. The contents usually come in descending creation order. You are able to see these options below:

Core Options

• order - asc, desc - Documents ordination.
• count - Number - Amount of documents to sync.
• type - manga, rss - Type of source to sync.

Manga

The manga source by default sets count: 1 and order: desc to retrieve the last most recent chapter.

• name - String - Manga name to search for.

Example:

• Sync the last One Piece manga chapter:

{
	"type": "manga",
	"name": "One Piece"
}

RSS

The RSS source by default sets order: desc and splitRSSPosts: false to return all posts in publish date descending order.

• url - String - RSS feed link.
• splitRSSPosts - Boolean - Set to true if you want every post to be a new document inside your kindle.

Example:

• Sync all the last dev.to feed posts in the same document:

{
	"type": "rss",
	"url": "https://dev.to/feed",
	"splitRSSPosts": false
}

Storage

In case you want to avoid duplicated sync, you can use a storage to save sync history. After adding a storage config, you need to set the 'no_duplicated_sync' environment variable to true in order to use it.

Core Options

• type - local - Type of storage to use.

Local

It saves the sync history inside the repository this action is currently running on. You need to give Kindlefy a github access token in order to edit the repository, usually when we are using a Github Action, it automatically sets up a variable called 'GITHUB_TOKEN' on the build context that can be used as shown in the .yml example in the start of the readme.

• githubAccessToken - String - Github access token to give the Github Action write/read access to the repository it is running in.

Example:

• Using Github repository to save sync history:

{
	"type": "local",
	"githubAccessToken": "github access token"
}

🕋 Features

• Send to Kindle by Gmail.

• Send to Kindle by Outlook.

• Send to Kindle by a generic SMTP Server.

• Import Manga.

• Import RSS Feed.

• Import Full Medium RSS Feeds.

• Use a database to persist sync history and avoid data duplication on kindle (such as using MongoDB, Github Repository, etc).

• Turn every rss post into a single document inside Kindle.

• Choosing which collection to put the documents.

• Sending more than one document per mail.

• Using an own Docker Image (builded with the Dockerfile inside this repo) to improve action speed.

🔧 Technologies

• Typescript
• Husky
• Lint Staged
• ESLint
• Git Commit Message Linter
• Cheerio
• Nodemailer
• Calibre

🚀 Development Environment

You just need to clone this repository inside your machine and run the following commands:

npm install
npm run dev

Obs:

• It is needed to have Calibre installed locally.