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+This is a script to save an article from Newsboat RSS reader to an epub file.
+
+Setup
+------
+
+- copy the script into a file in ~/bin
+- make sure that ~/bin is included in $PATH ($ echo $PATH)
+- make the script executable by running 
+
+	$ chmod u+x script.sh
+
+- modify the path to the directory where you'd like epub files to be saved -- see comment in script
+- add these two lines to newsboat's config file, probably located at ~/.newsboat/config
+
+	# Save article .epub
+	macro S pipe-to "~/bin/save-article-to-epub.py" 
+
+Usage
+------
+
+- in Newsboat, when you want to save an article, press , then shift + S.
+
+License
+-------
+
+GPLv3
+
+Script originally written by Ludivico Gerardi.
diff --git a/save-article-to-epub.py b/save-article-to-epub.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import sys
+import subprocess
+
+article = ""
+title = ""
+for line in sys.stdin:
+   article = article + line
+   if not title and line.startswith("Title:"):
+       title = line[7:].strip()
+
+subprocess.run(
+    # uncomment to save in current directory
+    # ["pandoc", "--metadata", f'title="{title}"', "-o", title + ".epub"], input=bytes(article, encoding="utf-8"), 
+    # save in designated directory /home/user/epub/
+    ["pandoc", "--metadata", f'title="{title}"', "-o", "/home/user/epub/" + title + ".epub"],
+    input=bytes(article, encoding="utf-8"),
+)
+print(title, "has been saved as an epub file.")