Overview

This is a simple web application to handle to two tasks:

• Whenever an article is added to wallabag, the article will be converted to a mobi file and emailed to your Kindle.
• All links in the article are rewritten so that opening the URL in the Kindle browser will add the article to wallabag. This will in turn mail that article in convenient format to your Kindle.

  In practice, this allows following links in a Kindle document and receiving the linked article as a properly formatted e-book without having to convert the linked article manually.

At the moment, this requires running a wallabag instance using the hooks branch.

Warning: While this works well for me, the code has been barely tested, so use this project at your own risk.

Security

Since a non-jailbroken Kindle cannot run custom code, we handle adding articles to wallabag on the server side instead of on the Kindle itself. To avoid unauthorized access to this service, each link contains a fixed secret token as a GET parameter that is then checked by wallabag-kindle. This means that running wallabag-kindle over http instead of https will disclose that token to every machine in between, such as wifi access points.

It is highly recommended to only run wallabag-kindle over https. If you are looking for an easy way to add https to your web server, take a look at LetsEncrypt.

Installation

• Make sure that the following dependencies are available:
  • python3
  • calibre
  • mpack
• Ensure that your MTA can send mail to your Kindle address and add the sender address to the list of allowed addresses on your Amazon account.
• Install the package via python3 setup.py install or locally via python3 setup.py install --user.
• If necessary, adjust the path to the configuration file in wallabag-kindle.ini.
• Copy the example configuration in config.example to that location case. In case of the default location:

cp config.example ~/.wallabag-kindle

• Set the configuration parameters. Note that you have to create an API client in your wallabag instance to obtain the wb_client_id an wb_client_secret values.
• Use a long random string for secret token. For example, such a string can be generated using pwgen by running pwgen -1 64.
• Configure your web server to serve the uwsgi application specified in wallabag-kindle.ini. Refer to your web server’s documentation for details.
• Add the following URL as the new article hook in your wallabag instance: https://$wallabag_kindle_server/?key=$key&action=send&article_id=%i&article_url=%u&article_title=%t where $wallabag_kindle_server should be replaced by the URL of your wallabag-kindle instance and key by the value of secret_token from the previous step.