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Upload Instapaper bookmarks to Pinboard. For input, uses the CSV file as exported from Instapaper, or received from their support.
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#!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
"""Upload Instapaper bookmarks to Pinboard. For input, uses the CSV file as | |
exported from Instapaper, or received from their support. | |
""" | |
import sys | |
import os | |
import argparse | |
import csv | |
# https://github.com/lionheart/pinboard.py | |
import pinboard | |
def main(arguments): | |
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( | |
description=__doc__, | |
formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter) | |
parser.add_argument('-i', '--infile', help="Input file in CSV format as exported from Instapaper", required=True, type=argparse.FileType('r')) | |
args = parser.parse_args(arguments) | |
try: | |
api_token = os.environ["PINBOARD_TOKEN"] | |
except KeyError: | |
print("You must specify Pinboard API token in PINBOARD_TOKEN environment variable.") | |
return 1 | |
pb = pinboard.Pinboard(api_token) | |
reader = csv.reader(args.infile, delimiter=',', quotechar="\"") | |
next(reader) # skip 1st line (header) | |
for row in reader: | |
# sometimes title is blank. Pinboard API will barf and abort on this. I prefer to just fix the CSV manually in that case | |
url, title, selection, folder = row | |
print(folder, " – ", title) | |
toread = False | |
# Pinboard doesn’t like multi-word folders and converts them to multiple tags. I had few enough of these | |
# that I could just fix that manually. | |
tags = [folder] | |
if folder == "Unread": | |
toread = True | |
tags = [] | |
pb.posts.add(url=url, description=title, extended=selection, tags=tags, toread = toread) | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:])) |
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