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.

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
• miller
• jo

Usage

1. Update miniflux url and feed id
2. export MINIFLUX_TOKEN environment variable
3. Run ./run.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