- With Instapaper, you simply push a button in your browser, or choose “send to Instapaper” in a linked mobile app. Instapaper then saves it for you, and makes it available in a beautiful, uncluttered, reading-optimized format on your mobile phone, your tablet, your Kindle, or your browser.
- Instapaper Save is the official saving tool for Mac users. Just log into the Instapaper app on your Mac and then click the Instapaper browser button to add any web content to your Instapaper account. Instapaper allows you to save any web content into a clean, customizable format to ensure that you.
As we surf the web we find a lot of information that we might use later. We use different applications (Pocket app, Instapaper, Diigo, Evernote or other apps) to save links or notes what we find.
While many of the above applications have a lot of great features there still a lot of opportunities to automate some processes using web API that many of applications provide now.
The App Store landscape had changed dramatically since 2008, and by September 2014 it made the most sense for us to transition Instapaper into a freemium product, marking the first time Instapaper was offered for free on the App Store since the removal of “Instapaper Free” in 2011. Instapaper is a simple tool to save web pages for reading later. To save web pages for later offline reading: go to Instapaper.com, install the Read Later bookmark, and mark any pages you'd like to read later. It's great for long articles and blog posts that you find during the day and would like to read, but don't have the time when you find them. Folder view (left) and Read Later list (right) in the Instapaper app. The free version of the Instapaper app works just fine, but the US$4.99 version lets you work with your Instapaper folders.
This will allow to extend application functionality and eliminate some manual processes.
For Example: You have about 20 links that you want to send to pocket like application.
Another example: When you add link to one application you may be want also save link or note to Pocket app or to Instapaper application.
Or may be you want automatically (through script) extract links from some web sites and save them to your Pocket app.
In today post we will look at few examples that allow you start to do this. We will check how to use Pocket API and Instapaper API with python programming.
API for Pocket App
Pocket, previously known as Read It Later, is an application and service for managing a reading list of articles from the Internet. It is available on many different devices including web browsers. (Wikipedia)
There is great post[1] that is showing how to set up API for it. This post has detailed screenshots how to get all the needed identification information for successful login.
In summary you need get online consumer key for your api application then obtain token code via script. Then you can access the link that will include token and do authorization of application. After this you can use API for sending links.
Instapaper Login With Mac App
Below is the summary python script to send the link to Pocket app including previous steps:
API for Instapaper
Instapaper is a bookmarking service owned by Pinterest. It allows web content to be saved so it can be “read later” on a different device, such as an e-reader, smartphone, tablet. (Wikipedia)
Below is the code example how to send link to Instapaper. The code example is based on the script that I found on Internet [2]
References
1. Add Pocket API using Python – Tutorial
2. Instapaper
DesktopRSS app Lightread now supports two of the most popular ‘read it later’ services: ‘Pocket’ and ‘Instapaper’.
Both services, which claim to have some 5.5 million users between them, boast Kindle, Android, iOS and web apps that give its users on-the-go access to their stashed stories.
Pocket and Instapaper Sending in Lightread
Two new icons have been added to bottom toolbar under the article pane.
Clicking the second of these – the arrow icon – allows you to quickly ‘send’ an article to either service Pocket or Instapaper.
If you’re not already logged in to the service you selected you will be prompted to do so. You will only need to login once.
And that’s it.
You may, like me, find yourself wondering if the article is actually sent. Lightread gives no feedback, notification or confirmation after sending so you just have to ‘trust’ that it’s worked.
Instapaper Formatting
As well as supporting the sending of articles to Instapaper Lightread also integrates the services’ famous one-click ‘reformatting’ feature.
When toggled on, this feature reformats the article being read to a standardised ‘readable’ layout, with options to customise the font size, font style, background colour, and spacing.
Hitting the ‘I‘ icon in the toolbar will toggle it on and off.
How to Install Lightread in Ubuntu 12.04
Instapaper Login With App Store
As Lightread was created for the Ubuntu App Showdown it will – at some point in the very near future – be added to the Ubuntu Software Centre for fuss-free installing.
But until then if you want to use it you’ll need to add and install the app from its official PPA.
To do this add ppa:cooperjona/lightread to yourSoftware Sources, update, then install the ‘lightread’ package.
Thanks to Paanini