From 978a8e5c7c5e98f7023213d6f8ae230fabf51e3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Balakrishnan Balasubramanian <git.user@balki.me>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2025 14:25:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] cleanup and add README

---
 README.md | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 run.sh    | 19 ++++++++++---------
 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 README.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dfa5a9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+### Miniflux old feed fetcher
+
+Some news sites pay-wall articles for some time such that they are only
+available to subscribers. After the pay-wall period, they are then freely
+available to all. This script is for [lwn][0].
+
+1. Gets all articles before last Thursday that were pay-walled. Title starts
+   with `[$] ...` for pay-walled articles
+2. Downloads full content
+3. Updates title replacing `$` with `✓`, i.e Now it reads `[✓] ...`
+4. Marks those articles as unread
+
+### Dependencies
+
+* [yq][1]
+* [miller][2]
+
+### Usage
+
+1. Update miniflux url and feed id
+2. export MINIFLUX_TOKEN environment variable
+3. Run `./run.sh`
+
+```sh
+❯ ./run.sh
+Considering articles between w2: 2025-06-08T13:47:04-04:00 and w1: 2025-06-19T00:00:00-04:00
+processing entry: 3068 title: [$] Finding locking bugs with Smatch
+Downloding content. entry: 3068 title: [$] Finding locking bugs with Smatch
+Updating title. entry: 3068 title: [$] Finding locking bugs with Smatch
+Marking as unread. entry: 3068 title: [$] Finding locking bugs with Smatch
+processing entry: 3061 title: [$] Improving iov_iter
+Downloding content. entry: 3061 title: [$] Improving iov_iter
+Updating title. entry: 3061 title: [$] Improving iov_iter
+Marking as unread. entry: 3061 title: [$] Improving iov_iter
+processing entry: 3060 title: [$] An end to uniprocessor configurations
+Downloding content. entry: 3060 title: [$] An end to uniprocessor configurations
+Updating title. entry: 3060 title: [$] An end to uniprocessor configurations
+Marking as unread. entry: 3060 title: [$] An end to uniprocessor configurations
+```
+
+[0]: https://lwn.net
+[1]: https://github.com/mikefarah/yq
+[2]: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
diff --git a/run.sh b/run.sh
index 0a7c088..5377c1d 100755
--- a/run.sh
+++ b/run.sh
@@ -9,18 +9,17 @@ process() {
 	local eid="$1"
 	local title="$2"
 
-	echo "processing entry: $eid title: $title"
-
-	title=${title//$/✓}
-
+	echo "Downloding content. entry: $eid title: $title"
 	curl --fail -o /dev/null -s "$MURL/v1/entries/$eid/fetch-content" \
 		--url-query update_content=true \
 		-H "X-Auth-Token: $MINIFLUX_TOKEN"
 
+	echo "Updating title. entry: $eid title: $title"
 	curl --fail -o /dev/null -s -X PUT "$MURL/v1/entries/$eid" \
-		--json "$(printf '{"title":"%s"}' "$title")" \
+		--json "$(printf '{"title":"%s"}' "${title/$/✓}")" \
 		-H "X-Auth-Token: $MINIFLUX_TOKEN"
 
+	echo "Marking as unread. entry: $eid title: $title"
 	curl --fail -s -X PUT "$MURL/v1/entries" \
 		--json "$(printf '{"entry_ids":[%s],"status":"unread"}' "$eid")" \
 		-H "X-Auth-Token: $MINIFLUX_TOKEN"
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ main() {
 
 	local w1 w2
 
-	if [ "$(date +%u)" = 4 ]; then
+	if [ "$(date +%A)" = Thursday ]; then
 		w1=$(date --iso-8601=s -d 'last thursday')
 	else
 		w1=$(date --iso-8601=s -d 'last thursday -1 week')
@@ -39,18 +38,20 @@ main() {
 
 	w2=$(date --iso-8601=s -d '3 weeks ago')
 
-	echo "w1: $w1 w2: $w2"
+	echo "Considering articles between w2: $w2 and w1: $w1 "
 
-	curl -s --fail -D headers.out "$MURL/v1/feeds/$FID/entries" \
+	curl -s --fail "$MURL/v1/feeds/$FID/entries" \
 		--url-query limit=50 \
 		--url-query order=id \
 		--url-query direction=desc \
 		-H "X-Auth-Token: $MINIFLUX_TOKEN" |
 		yq '.entries[]' |
-		mlr --l2p --ho \
+		mlr --l2n \
 			filter '$title =~ "\[\$\]"' \
 			'then' filter -s w1="$w1" -s w2="$w2" '$published_at > @w2 && $published_at < @w1' \
 			'then' cut -of id,title | while read -r eid title; do
+
+		echo "processing entry: $eid title: $title"
 		process "$eid" "$title"
 	done