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Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader

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294 points zerojames | 4 comments | 20 Dec 24 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Earlier this year, I made a web reader that only showed a list of post titles, author domains, and links. The reader only updated once per day, so I wouldn't feel compelled to keep checking for new posts.

I have been using the tool, which I called Artemis, for several months. Every morning, I looked forward to my "morning paper" of blogs I love reading.

There are no notifications, read vs. unread states, counts of posts, etc. Only the last seven days of posts are available. The colour scheme is changeable. Dark mode is supported. All popular feed formats are supported.

There is no reading interface to read blog posts; rather, the links take you to the authors' websites. Many of my favourite bloggers put a lot of effort into the design of their blogs and like to change things up; I wanted an experience that embraced that.

The reader is now available for anyone to use (with invite code "hn").

1. xnx ◴[20 Dec 24 15:50 UTC] No.42472116[source]▶
I love the idea of a simple, digest-style, mode. Might make some version of this for Instagram. There's nothing so important on Instagram that it can't wait for the next day.
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2. venusenvy47 ◴[20 Dec 24 15:57 UTC] No.42472184[source]▶
Can you recommend a tool that could check an Instagram feed once a day for the current photos? I found a command line tool, but it tries to download the whole account, rather than just the daily updates.

https://instaloader.github.io/

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3. xnx ◴[20 Dec 24 16:04 UTC] No.42472239[source]▶
That's exactly the tool I would use. There are options you can use to configure what posts are downloaded:

https://instaloader.github.io/cli-options.html#which-posts-t...

https://instaloader.github.io/basic-usage.html#filter-posts

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4. venusenvy47 ◴[20 Dec 24 16:10 UTC] No.42472300{3}[source]▶
Actually, I made a mistake. That tool I haven't got working yet because of the necessary authentication. I've been using this one without auth, but it downloads everything.

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl