--- title: "AWS Lambda: save articles" slug: /save-articles-lambda date: 2023-09-07 tags: ["log", "project", "productivity", "aws", "python"] --- I've just finished a new [AWS Lambda](https://github.com/thomasabishop/lambdas/tree/main/save-articles) written in Python. It retrieves entries from my saved articles in Pocket, parses the key metadata and saves it to a Google Sheet. I've done this because I find the Pocket app to be really uncongenial and confusing to use. However I've used Pocket for a long time and the alternatives are worse or have bad APIs. Now I keep my interactions with Pocket minimal. I use the Pocket browser extension only to save and tag articles. My lambda function retrieves articles by tag and saves them to a Google Sheet. This allows me to access the articles from anywhere without using a database. Each tag has a corresponding sheet that lists the articles in reverse chronological order. The lambda executes on a cron timer once a day. Here are my saved technical articles, for example: ![](./img/saved_tech_articles.png)