dropout

When interfaces are designed for capturing and exhausting your attention going offline is both an act of liberation and luxury. This is a tool of ethical technology enabling you to save pages for offline access and personal archival.

npm install dropout -g

dropout save http://quillette.com/2017/10/22/liberals-turning-internet/

features

• Cleanup a page to showcase only the content
• Static files, no database, so super extendable
• Platforms 🖕, this is a tool 🎉

usage

You can use either the command line interface or the module with js. There are plans for other things, too.

cli

dropout <cmd> [args]

Commands:
  dropout save [url]  save a url

Options:
  --version  Show version number
  --help     Show help

module

var dropout = require('dropout')

dropout.save(url, {options})

Save a page! Creates an index.html for easy viewing, and a data.json with some handy meta-data and the parsed content which is used to generate the html.

options

options.fs

Pass a custom filesystem for saving. Expects mkdirSync, writeFileSync.

options.output

The output (parent) directory the page directory will be saved to.

options.prepend

Prepend the directory name with a custom timestamp. Defaults to YYMMDD.

options.style

The CSS for the document. Currently defaults to Github Markdown CSS.

options.template

A custom template with {{TITLE}} and {{CONTENT}} tags. The default is currently gnarly.

<main class="markdown-body" style="max-width: 888px; margin: 60px auto;"><h1>{{TITLE}}</h1>{{CONTENT}}</main>

related

• new-work, a CLI tool that automatically checks artists' websites for new work by Seth Thompson.
• Hardly Everything, an attempt to subvert the traditional feed by substituting activity with user-defined durations of passing time called rests.

todo

• Testing
• Save media files (img, youtubedl, etc)
• Custom CSS
• Custom HTML template
• Toggle page cleanup
• Reading interface
• Dat sync
• Beaker Browser app (hosted micro-service to save when online)
• remove lib method
• Add to Arena support

change log

10/26/17

First release. Only the save functionality is there. Minimal documentation.