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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Downloads an article from the web and converts it to PDF with pandoc.
+# USAGE: article2pdf <url>
+
+pdfs_dir=~/Downloads/articles
+
+html_file=`mktemp`
+
+# Some sites ban curl, so use "firefox" user agent
+user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0'
+curl --user-agent "$user_agent" --location --silent "$1" > "$html_file"
+
+pdf_file=$pdfs_dir/`pup --file "$html_file" 'title text{}' \
+    | grep -v '^\s*$' \
+    | head -n 1 \
+    | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ *$//' -e 's/ /-/g'`.pdf
+
+
+if pandoc --request-header User-Agent:"$user_agent" "$1" --pdf-engine=xelatex -o "$pdf_file"; then
+    exit 0
+else
+    # we may have failed due to unconvertable images (e.g. webp)
+    # in that case try rebuilding without images
+    pandoc "$html_file" -f html --pdf-engine=xelatex -o "$pdf_file"
+fi
+
+rm "$html_file"