A personalized weekly Pinboard-based newsletter of pages you said you wanted to read.

pinboard-weekly-newsletter.sh

set -e;

# Creates a simple email message containing links from your recent Pinboard 
# bookmarks that are marked as "to read". 

echo "[$(date)] Beginning pinboard weekly summary...";

CREDS="user:token"

TO="$(date -u +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')"
FROM=$(date --date="$FROM -7 day" +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')

URL="https://api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/all?auth_token=$CREDS&count=100&format=json&fromdt=$FROM&todt=$TO"

TOREAD=$(curl -s $URL | jq -c -r '.[] | select(.toread | contains("yes")) | @base64');
REPORT="$(date -I).html"

getmailbody() {
    echo "<h1>Weekly Pinboard Reading List</h1>";
    echo "<h3>For the week of $(date -I)</h3>"
    echo "<p>For your use, here's a selection of articles you said you wanted to read.</p>"
    echo "<ul>"
    echo "$TOREAD" | while read ROW; do

        # Solution from
        # https://www.starkandwayne.com/blog/bash-for-loop-over-json-array-using-jq/
        _jq() {
            echo ${ROW} | base64 --decode | jq -r ${1}
        }

        if [ -n "$ROW" ]; then
            NAME="$(_jq '.description')"
            DESC="$(_jq '.extended')"
            LINK="$(_jq '.href')"

            NAME=${NAME:=$LINK}
            DESC=${DESC:="<i>no description</i>"}

            echo "<li><a href='$LINK'>$NAME</a><p>$DESC</p></li>";
        fi
    done;
    echo "</ul>"
}

if [ -n "$TOREAD" ]; then
    echo "$(getmailbody)" | mail \
        -a "Content-type: text/html" \
        -s "Weekly Pinboard Summary" <email address>
else
    echo "Nothing to report. Done."
fi