Pinlink

Shell script to fetch new posts from pinboard.in and publish to Nostr

It gets posts from https://pinboard.in marked as public with less than 24 hours, configurable in fetch.sh

The list of relays is configurable in vars.sh

Requirements

• nak, the nostr army knife
• jq, a command-line JSON processor

How to use it

Clone this repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/bordalix/pinlink
$ cd pinlink

Add your credentials to file .env.local:

# get it from pinboard.in > settings > password
$ echo "authtoken=username:1234567890ABCDEF" > .env.local
# your nostr private key in hexadecimal format
$ echo "seckey=<64 hex chars>" >> .env.local

There are 4 executable scripts:

• fetch.sh fetches new posts from pinboard.in and saves to posts.json
• create.sh from posts.json creates content.txt with full text for the event to be published
• publish.sh gets event content from content.txt, signs and publishes it to list of relays, and creates event.json with published event
• run.sh run all 3 previous scripts in sequence

Retweet

• repost republishes the event found in event.json