stdoutflux

stdoutflux

Connects to a Miniflux instance, pulls unread entries, formats them for printing on a limited-line display (32 characters by default) and outputs to stdout.

It's quite dumb. Much of it was written by copilot. I don't suggest you use it.

I (don't) use it like this:

stdoutflux -markread | pv --rate-limit 64 | receipt

Where pv is PipeViewer and receipt is a bash script that sends each line to my MQTT broker to be printed by a thermal receipt printer running esphome.

It does this:

You can set the Miniflux URL, API token, line length, and whether printed articles should be marked read (default false) with command-line arguments or environment variables. CLI args take precedence.

MINIFLUX_URL
MINIFLUX_API_TOKEN
STDOUTFLUX_LINE_LENGTH
STDOUTFLUX_MARK_READ

Or:

$ stdoutflux -help
Usage of stdoutflux:
    -linelength int
            Maximum line length for content wrapping (default 32)
    -markread
            Mark entries as read after printing (default false)
    -token string
            API token for Miniflux
    -url string
            Miniflux instance URL

Theoretically you could run this in a cronjob, or something.

Installation

I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, but...

Download and install Go (It's easy, I promise). Add the go/bin directories to your $PATH as required. Then:

go install github.com/tjhowse/stdoutflux

Optionally, to install PipeViewer:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y pv

Known issues

My thermal printer doesn't use a monospaced font, so sometimes it wraps lines of its own accord, splitting words annoyingly. The default of 32 characters is the maximum characters that can fit on a line, if they're all narrow.