INTRO

Intaka (Intaka means bird in Xhosa) is an app that I originall wrote to download articles from The Economist and convert them into Kindle format.

REQUIREMENTS

Intaka is a Python application and requires the BeautifulSoup module to be available.

Obviously an internet connection.

I use the freely available kindlegen.exe from Amazon to convert the articles into a format usable on the Kindle.

USAGE

Just put a list of article URL's into the file articles.txt

e.g. http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=17633606

Run the file get-articles.py and the program should download each article and accompanying pictures and convert into a format suitable to be read on your ereading device.

The output is:

• output.opf An OPF file pointing at the various input files
• toc.html Table of Contents that can optionally be used
• output.html HTML file containing all of the articles
• img Directory containing each of the images downloaded and linked.

I recommend using kindlegen.exe to convert the output.opf file:

kindlegen.exe -c1 output.opf

ROADMAP

I've tried to build a pluggable architecture so that sources other than The Economist can be used.