Pocket CLI

Pocket-CLI is an application for reading / listing and managing your GetPocket.com articles from the terminal.

Note: This app is based on my Pocket-API package.

Features

• Retrieves and indexes all of your articles and saves them into a CSV file in your home directory for quicker response.
• Enables you to specify your reading speed to calculate the amount of time each article requires. You can estimate your reading speed from online tests such as Speed Reading Online Test
• Able to sort articles by reading time (default) and Article ID
• Enables you to search articles by keywords, tags and sort by GetPocket's sorting params. This will perform a request to Pocket.
• Automated app configuration through pocket-cli configure command.
• Uses LESS to list article for easy navigation.
• Multiple fetch command calls will retrieve articles since last fetch.

Note: This application has been tested on Python 2.7.10 and 3.5.0.

Installation

pip install pocket-cli

Configuration

If you already have a Pocket API consumer key, skip to step 2.

1. Generate a Pocket API consumer key at https://getpocket.com/developer/apps/new. Here's an example:

2. Run pocket-cli configure and enter the consumer key generated in step 1 when prompted.
3. Next, you will be prompted for a sort order and your estimated reading speed. You may visit http://www.readingsoft.com/ to estimate your reading speed.
4. After you have finished selecting configurations for pocket-cli, a browser window will open requesting access to your Pocket account. Log in to Pocket (if you are not already logged in) and click Authorize to accept and complete the configuration of pocket-cli.

Usage

Usage: pocket-cli [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
    --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
    add
    archive
    configure
    fetch
    list
    random
    read
    search

Commands

To configure the app (for first time use)

pocket-cli configure

To add a new article URL with additional params.

pocket-cli add --url <URL> --title <title> --tags <tag1> --tags <tag2>

Mark a specific article as read.

pocket-cli archive <ID>

To fetch all articles / or articles added since last fetch

pocket-cli fetch

To list your articles

pocket-cli list --limit 10 --order [asc|desc]

To select a random article for you to read

pocket-cli random --archive --browser

--archive will mark this article as read
--browser will open the article in your default browser

To read an article

pocket-cli random --open-origin --archive

--archive will mark this article as read
--open-origin will open the article's original URL rather than Pocket's.

To search for specific articles

pocket-cli --state [unread|archive|all] --sort [newest|oldest|title|site] --tag <search_by_tag> <Search Term>

Cronjob

You can add /path/to/pocket-cli fetch to your crontab to let the app fetch new articles every once and a while. For example, to fetch every 3 hours, execute crontab -e and add the following line:

* */3 * * * /usr/local/bin/pocket-cli fetch

Contribution

Contributions are welcome! Fork the repository, create a branch, implement your changes and create a pull request and i'll be happy to review and merge your features / changes.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Rakan Alhneiti

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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