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| title | slug | date | tags | |||||
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| AWS Lambda: save articles | /save-articles-lambda | 2023-09-07 |
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I've just finished a new AWS Lambda 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:
