The script extracts highlights from a given (markdown) file and uploads them to Readwise. The note reader is specific to my note formatting but can be easily adjusted.
I have initial metadata at the top of the file that I want to ignore. The ending of my metadata is detected through a specific text line (currently hardcoded).
A highlight is defined through linebreaks. E.g.:
This is meta.
This line indicates end of meta.
This is a highlight.
This is another highlight.
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Create an
.envfile with your Readwise API tokenTOKEN=.... -
To read the token, install:
pip install python-decouple -
Include in
PATH. I created a symbolic link in a path included directory to directly run the script from anywhere.ln -s push_readwise.py ~/homebrew/bin
Run push_readwise.py to upload the notes of the file (currently hardcoded to index.en.md)