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## Comparison
- https://github.com/ptrstn/dailyblink
- 🏅 inspiration for this project
- (👎) relies on web scraping (using BeautifulSoup4)
- 👎 last commit was in 2021
- 👎 currently (at least partially) [broken](https://github.com/ptrstn/dailyblink/issues/32)
- https://github.com/leoncvlt/blinkist-scraper
- 👍 more features
- categories
- formats: HTML, EPUB, PDF
- embedding of cover art into concatenated audio file
- (👎) relies on a mixture of web scraping (using Selenium) and API requests [¹](https://github.com/leoncvlt/blinkist-scraper/blob/master/blinkistscraper/scraper.py)
- 👎 relies on ChromeDriver (larger resource footprint)
- 👎 last commit was in 2021
- https://github.com/rajeshbhavikatti/daily_blink_to_notion
- borrows some of my code 😇
- 👎 very specific use case
- https://github.com/luckylittle/blinkist-m4a-downloader
- written in Go
- (👎) relies on web scraping (using [colly](https://github.com/gocolly/colly)) [¹](https://github.com/luckylittle/blinkist-m4a-downloader/blob/master/download/download.go)
- https://github.com/orgarafatm/blinkist
- (👎) relies on web scraping (using BeautifulSoup4)
- 👎 contains scraped content

> - https://github.com/karlicoss/blinkist-backup
> - only downloads highlights and the library booklist
## Example data
🛈 Also check out the auto-generated [Swagger API documentation](https://nicoweio.github.io/blinkist/).

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