Capcat
CLI/TUI to Archive Articles as Markdown and HTML (FOSS)
Details
- External ID
- 48768276
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Capcat
- Website domain
- capcat.org
- Launched
- July 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1081242532855436
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Capcat is a python based CLI/TUI FOSS utility for Ethical archiving of given website or RSS source.The github repo: https://github.com/stayukasabov/capcatIt is generated with NLP, context-engineering, spec-driven development and LLMs.Fully functional at http://capcat.org, with instructions for usage and documentation.The project started from my personal needs of simple archiving with structure and moved to product design/MVP exercise.I am longtime HN user, and the most value I got in years of reading is always deep in the comments section.For HN Capcat uses the official API, with rate-limits, identifies honesty with clear user agent and skips paywalled content. All usernames are anonymized with a link to the user profile.The content is delivered in Markdown format (Obsidian ready with frontmatter) and optional HTML with dark/light themes. Every source has its own YAML config file for separate control and PDF size limiter. In the folder users have an option to change the HTML theme with a minimal CSS design-system.Please consider that my focus as a product designer is in UX. I have enough of a general culture and software development principles but the code is not validated, and my decisions in building may have a limitation.Feedback is welcomed. Thanks in advance.
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- archive articles as markdown and html
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Capcat is a standard CLI/TUI written in Python to fetch RSS/HTML and convert to Markdown, an archetypal vibe-coding task that was explicitly created using LLMs.
Discussion
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