Given one or more URLs, makes a set of Markdown files for use in Obsidian. E.g.:
I provide a pre-compiled, packaged Python binary that I have tested on my Apple Silicon Mac. It should work on other Apple Silicon Macs. Call it from a terminal like so (replacing the URL with your URL of interest):
$ ./agu-notes-from-url https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/meetingapp.cgi/Session/168112
(If you get a permissions error, try doing chmod +x agu-notes-from-url and try again. You should only have to do that once.)
If you have some other kind of machine, you'll need to run the script using Python:
$ python3 agu-notes-from-url.py https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/meetingapp.cgi/Session/168112
More details on the latter below.
By default, this program:
- Downloads notes to the directory where it's called
- Includes
#AGU2023but with2023being the current year
If you'd like to change either of those, then in the directory where you'll be calling the binary/script (this does not have to be the directory where the binary/script is located, nor does it have to be the directory where you want the notes saved), make a text file called settings.ini. Change settings like so:
[optional]
output_location = /path/to/where/you/want/files/downloaded
year = 2023
Running the script with Python requires that your Python have the following non-standard modules installed:
regexselenium
If you get a ModuleNotFoundError for either of those, you can install them like so:
python3 -m pip install regex
You'll also need to point to a chromedriver binary. As of this writing (2023-12-14), you need to make sure your main Chrome is up-to-date so you can download and use the latest chromedriver from that page.
The default location for the chromedriver binary is at driver/chromedriver in the directory where the script is being called. To point somewhere else, add its path to the [optional] section of settings.ini like so:
[optional]
chromedriver_location = /path/to/chromedriver