Medium to Kindle

This is a simple script to convert Medium articles to Kindle format (epub).

Test it at https://medium-kindle-sender.onrender.com/.

Built with

• Node.js
• Express
• Epub-gen lib
• Mailersend

Features

• Convert Medium articles to epub
• Website to convert articles
• Download the epub file
• Multilanguage support (PT-BR and EN-US)
• Send the epub file by email
• Create a CLI
• Create a browser extension

Usage

1. Install the required packages:

npm install

2. Run the script:

npm run start

Environment variables

Create a .env file in the root directory with the following variables:

PORT=3000 # Port where the server will run (default: 3000)
API_KEY=your_api_key # Mailersend API key
EMAIL_SENDER=your_email # Email to send the epub file

Endpoints

• Website:

  • GET /: Home page
  • GET /how-to-send-to-kindle: Page with instructions on how to send the epub file to Kindle

• API Endpoints:

  • POST /download: Download the epub file
  • POST /email: Send the epub file by email

Example epub

You can see an example of the generated epub file in articles/ folder.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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Developed by Jean Jacques Barros