Download todays cover of the New York Times

download-nyt-cover.ts

import { format } from "https://deno.land/std@0.134.0/datetime/mod.ts";

const download = async (url: string, filename: string) => {
  const data = (await fetch(url)).arrayBuffer();
  return Deno.writeFile(filename, new Uint8Array(await data));
};

const outputDir = Deno.args[0];
const date = new Date();
const outputFile = `${outputDir}/nyt_cover_${format(date, "yyyy-MM-dd")}.pdf`;

const baseUrl = "https://static01.nyt.com/images";
const dateUrl = `${baseUrl}/${format(date, "yyyy/MM/dd")}`;
const downloadUrl = `${dateUrl}/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf`;

console.log(`Download ${downloadUrl} to ${outputDir}`);

download(downloadUrl, outputFile);