byline

Find and save your articles from across the web.

This is still early in development!

Using The Web App

Start the web server:

node src/web.js

You can change the port with -port 80.

The web server can also run in Docker or another compatible container engine:

docker build -t "byline:Dockerfile" .
docker run -p 80:8080 -d --restart on-failure "byline:main"

Using The CLI Application

First, log in with your SerpApi account, which will save your API key to a byline-settings.txt file:

node src/cli.js -login

Then run Byline with -author and -site options to create the link list, with -limit set to 20 to use a maximum of 20 search credits:

node src/cli.js -author "Corbin Davenport" -site howtogeek.com -limit 20

You can add more options, like -filters for excluding certain URL paths, or -i for picking a different CSV file for the input:

node src/cli.js -i "/Users/Corbin/Desktop/myarticles.csv" -author "Corbin Davenport" -site howtogeek.com -filters "/archive/,/tag/,/category/" -limit 20

To create backups of your list, install Monolith and then use the -backup flag:

node src/cli.js -backup
node src/cli.js -i "/Users/Corbin/Desktop/myarticles.csv" -backup

Advanced Usage

Byline can read an API key from the SERPAPI_KEY environment variable. If the environment variable exists, the byline-settings.txt file will not be used.