Kindle Quotes

Transform Kindle 'My Clippings' text file to JSON.

Features

• Replaces dumbquotes ' ' " " with smartquotes ‘ ’ “ ”
• Prepends highlights starting mid-sentence with an …ellipsis
• Trims large sections of spacing (from epub or pdf highlights)
• Standardises author format as Firstname Lastname
• Skips bookmarks, duplicates, and empty highlights

Transform this:

==========
The Third Bear (VanderMeer, Jeff)
- Your Highlight at location 1856-1857 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 12:58:20

Blake says, "Where?" He's a man who measures words as if he had only a few given to him by Fate; too generous a syllable from his lips, and he might fall over dead.
==========
Songs of the Dying Earth (Dozois, Gardner;Martin, George R.R.)
- Your Highlight at location 11849-11850 | Added on Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:58:20

and eyeing the wizard speculatively across the room. A glance was enough to tell Molloqos that she was a woman of the evening, though in her case evening was edging on toward night.
==========

Into this:

[
  {
    "title": "The Third Bear",
    "authors": ["Jeff VanderMeer"],
    "loc": "1856-1857",
    "date": "2014-09-01T12:58:20.000Z",
    "content": "Blake says, “Where?” He’s a man who measures words as if he had only a few given to him by Fate; too generous a syllable from his lips, and he might fall over dead."
  },
   {
    "title": "Songs of the Dying Earth",
    "authors": ["Gardner Dozois", "George R.R. Martin"],
    "loc": "11849-11850",
    "date": "2015-04-30T20:58:20.000Z",
    "content": "…and eyeing the wizard speculatively across the room. A glance was enough to tell Molloqos that she was a woman of the evening, though in her case evening was edging on toward night."
  }
]

Usage

As Global CLI

$ npm install -g kindlequotes
$ kindlequotes -i 'My Clippings.txt' -o 'my-quotes.json'

Options

-i, --infile [value]   Filename to read kindle highlights [Default: My Clippings.txt]
-o, --outfile [value]  Filename to write JSON [Default: quotes.json]
-d, --dirname [value]  Path to write outfile to [Default: current working directory]
-v, --version          Output the version number
-h, --help             Output this usage information

As Import in a Local Project

$ npm install kindlequotes

const transformQuotes = require('kindlequotes');
const fs = require('fs');
const quotes = transformQuotes(
  fs.readFileSync('./My Clippings.txt', 'utf8')
);