diff --git a/newsletter/go.mod b/newsletter/go.mod
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7b40d88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsletter/go.mod
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+module bopbot/newsletter
+
+go 1.21.3
+
+require (
+	github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery v1.8.1
+	github.com/yosssi/gohtml v0.0.0-20201013000340-ee4748c638f4
+)
+
+require (
+	github.com/andybalholm/cascadia v1.3.1 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/net v0.7.0 // indirect
+)
diff --git a/newsletter/go.sum b/newsletter/go.sum
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a56422
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsletter/go.sum
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery v1.8.1 h1:uQxhNlArOIdbrH1tr0UXwdVFgDcZDrZVdcpygAcwmWM=
+github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery v1.8.1/go.mod h1:Q8ICL1kNUJ2sXGoAhPGUdYDJvgQgHzJsnnd3H7Ho5jQ=
+github.com/andybalholm/cascadia v1.3.1 h1:nhxRkql1kdYCc8Snf7D5/D3spOX+dBgjA6u8x004T2c=
+github.com/andybalholm/cascadia v1.3.1/go.mod h1:R4bJ1UQfqADjvDa4P6HZHLh/3OxWWEqc0Sk8XGwHqvA=
+github.com/yosssi/gohtml v0.0.0-20201013000340-ee4748c638f4 h1:0sw0nJM544SpsihWx1bkXdYLQDlzRflMgFJQ4Yih9ts=
+github.com/yosssi/gohtml v0.0.0-20201013000340-ee4748c638f4/go.mod h1:+ccdNT0xMY1dtc5XBxumbYfOUhmduiGudqaDgD2rVRE=
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+golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20210921155107-089bfa567519/go.mod h1:GvvjBRRGRdwPK5ydBHafDWAxML/pGHZbMvKqRZ5+Abc=
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+golang.org/x/term v0.5.0/go.mod h1:jMB1sMXY+tzblOD4FWmEbocvup2/aLOaQEp7JmGp78k=
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diff --git a/newsletter/scrape/.gitignore b/newsletter/scrape/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e171a20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsletter/scrape/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+scrape
diff --git a/newsletter/scrape/Makefile b/newsletter/scrape/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e64989a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsletter/scrape/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+all:
+	go get ./...
+	go build -o scrape .
+	./scrape
diff --git a/newsletter/scrape/main.go b/newsletter/scrape/main.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..62764b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsletter/scrape/main.go
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+  "fmt"
+  "log"
+  "net/http"
+  "net/url"
+  "strings"
+
+  "github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery"
+  "github.com/yosssi/gohtml"
+)
+
+var DEBUG bool = false
+
+func GrabPage(url string) *goquery.Document {
+  // Request the HTML page.
+  res, err := http.Get(url)
+  if err != nil {
+    log.Fatal(err)
+  }
+  defer res.Body.Close()
+  if res.StatusCode != 200 {
+    log.Fatalf("status code error: %d %s", res.StatusCode, res.Status)
+  }
+
+  // Load the HTML document
+  doc, err := goquery.NewDocumentFromReader(res.Body)
+  if err != nil {
+    log.Fatal(err)
+  }
+
+  if DEBUG {
+    //print out the page
+    fmt.Printf(">>>status code: %d\n", res.StatusCode)
+    pageHtml, err := doc.Html()
+    if err != nil {
+      log.Fatal(err)
+    }
+    fmt.Printf(">>>page html: %s\n", gohtml.Format(pageHtml))
+  }
+
+  return doc
+}
+
+func GrabPostTitleFromPage(doc *goquery.Document, titleSelector string) string {
+  blogTitle := doc.Find(titleSelector).Text()
+  if DEBUG {
+    fmt.Printf(">>>post title: %s\n", blogTitle)
+  }
+
+  return blogTitle
+}
+
+// return the root url domain from provided postUrl
+func GetRootUrl(postUrl string) string {
+  url, err := url.Parse(postUrl)
+  if err != nil {
+    log.Fatal(err)
+  }
+  url.Path = "/"
+
+  if DEBUG {
+    fmt.Printf(">>>root url: %s\n", url.String())
+  }
+
+  return url.String()
+}
+
+// replace root src and hrefs with FQDN refs
+func ReplaceRootRefs(html string, postUrl string) string {
+  rootReplacementUrl := GetRootUrl(postUrl)
+  html = strings.Replace(html, "=\"/", "=\"" + rootReplacementUrl, -1)
+
+  return html
+}
+
+func GrabPostFromPage(doc *goquery.Document, postUrl string, postSelector string) string {
+  // grab post html content
+  blogContent, err := doc.Find(postSelector).Html()
+  if err != nil {
+    log.Fatal(err)
+  }
+
+  // replace `/` resource refs with FQDN
+  blogContent = ReplaceRootRefs(blogContent, postUrl)
+
+  if DEBUG {
+    fmt.Printf(">>>blog post: %s\n", gohtml.Format(blogContent))
+  }
+
+  return blogContent
+}
+
+func ScrapePost(postUrl string, titleSelector string, postSelector string) (string, string) {
+  doc := GrabPage(postUrl)
+
+  title := GrabPostTitleFromPage(doc, titleSelector)
+  postHtml := GrabPostFromPage(doc, postUrl, postSelector)
+  return title, postHtml
+}
+
+func main() {
+  // where can we find the post title and content?
+  titleSelector := "div#content div.container h2"
+  postSelector := "div#content div.container"
+
+
+  // // example usage
+  // postUrl := "https://blog.ruebenramirez.com/posts/2023-10-06-gear-update/"
+  // title, postHtml := ScrapePost(postUrl, titleSelector, postSelector)
+  // fmt.Printf(">>>blog post title: %s\n", gohtml.Format(title))
+  // fmt.Printf(">>>blog post html: %s\n", gohtml.Format(postHtml))
+
+  // example usage
+  // postUrl := "https://blog.ruebenramirez.com/posts/2023-10-21-round-2-with-covid/"
+  // title, postHtml := ScrapePost(postUrl, titleSelector, postSelector)
+  // fmt.Printf(">>>blog post title: %s\n", gohtml.Format(title))
+  // fmt.Printf(">>>blog post html: %s\n", gohtml.Format(postHtml))
+
+  // example usage
+  postUrl := "https://blog.ruebenramirez.com/posts/2023-11-05-celebratin-60-pounds-down/"
+  title, postHtml := ScrapePost(postUrl, titleSelector, postSelector)
+  fmt.Printf(">>>blog post title: %s\n", gohtml.Format(title))
+  fmt.Printf(">>>blog post html: %s\n", gohtml.Format(postHtml))
+
+  // example usage
+  // postUrl := "https://blog.ruebenramirez.com/posts/2023-10-30-good-news-from-biopsy/"
+  // title, postHtml := ScrapePost(postUrl, titleSelector, postSelector)
+  // fmt.Printf(">>>blog post title: %s\n", gohtml.Format(title))
+  // fmt.Printf(">>>blog post html: %s\n", gohtml.Format(postHtml))
+}
+
+