Daily News Collection Workflow

Efficient routines for regular use.

Option 1: Bundle (recommended)

Bundles are named groups of sources. One command, multiple sources:

capcat bundle tech --count 20 --html

List available bundles:

capcat list bundles

Run all bundles:

capcat bundle --all --count 15 --html

Option 2: Multiple Sources

capcat fetch hn lb ieee --count 10 --html

Option 3: Interactive

capcat catch

Select “Catch articles from a bundle of sources” - no flags to remember.

With Media

capcat bundle tech --count 20 --html --media

Downloads images and PDFs alongside articles. Output size increases significantly.

Scheduled with Cron

# Every morning at 07:00
0 7 * * * /home/user/.local/bin/capcat bundle tech --count 30 --html --output ~/News

Update Existing Articles

capcat fetch hn --count 10 --html --update

--update re-fetches articles that already exist locally.

Output Structure

News/
  hn/
    index.html
    2026-05-06-<title>/
      article.md
      article.html
      comments.md
      comments.html
      media/