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Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog post) and email me the contents

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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.

-- 
 Dave Williams    dnw@eskimo.com

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looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog  post) and email me the contents Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2016-11-05 23:10 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog  post) and email me the contents Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-11-06 02:00 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 02:30 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2016-11-06 03:00 +0100
    Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 03:50 +0100
      Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2016-11-06 20:10 +0100
        Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-06 21:00 +0100
      Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-11-07 19:30 +0100
      Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to  a blog post) and email me the contents davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-11-09 22:00 +0100
        Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to  a blog post) and email me the contents davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-11-09 22:10 +0100
        Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to  a blog post) and email me the contents davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-11-10 01:40 +0100
          Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 04:40 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents jeremy bentham <dnw@eskimo.com> - 2016-11-07 03:50 +0100
    Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents billwill onggo <billwill.onggo@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 04:50 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-11-07 13:20 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog post) and email me the contents Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-07 14:30 +0100

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