Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog post) and email me the contents
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 03:01:14PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
> Does anybody know of a piece of software that you can give an URL to,
> and it will then fetch the url and email the contents to you?
>
> This could be a stand-alone app on the desktop, or a plug-in to a
> browser, or a web site, or some combo. (I guess it could be a
> pipeline of curl and some mail program, but i'm afraid i'd just get
> piles of incomprehensible text.)
>
> I would plan on sending the mail to my gmail account (for searching
> and archival purposes).
>
> TIA for any clues.
>
> dan
I use lynx for this; it's not completely automagic, you have to
configure it a little. And it has the drawback that it doesn't
do javascript.
In my case that doesn't matter, but you probably have different
needs.
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Dave Williams dnw@eskimo.com
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