This script scrapes Shortform for highlights and sends them to Readwise. Accounts with both Shortform and Readwise are required.
For more detailed instructions, check out my blog post here.
Enter the required data in variables.py.
authToken is the Authorization token that you use for Shortform. Shortform unfortunately doesn't expose this, but you can find out yours by opening up DevTools in Chrome or Firefox and navigating to, for example, your highlights page. In the DevTools Network tab, look for the request with the name ?sort=date and click on it. In the Request Headers panel, you'll see a header Authorization, with the value Basic <your token>. Copy everything after Basic and paste it into variables.py. (Note: There shouldn't be any spaces in the token.)
readwiseToken is your API token for Readwise, which you can get here.
Clone or download this repo, cd into it, and run the main script: python3 gethighlights.py .
You should be able to see your highlights appear in your Readwise library.
To run this script automatically, you can use crontab or similar.