Opening the Instapaper API

#1

Post by dsaw » Thu, Jul 02, 2015, 7:46 AM UTC

Opening the Instapaper API
blog.instapaper.com

Re: Opening the Instapaper API

#2

Post by insulanian » Thu, Jul 02, 2015, 8:59 AM UTC

Nice move, but I already moved to Pocket.

Re: Opening the Instapaper API

#3

Post by aaronem » Thu, Jul 02, 2015, 9:24 AM UTC

Instapaper is a lot stickier now. But the API appears to be write-only; neither there, nor anywhere else in the documentation, do I see any way to pull my data out of Instapaper if I should decide I no longer want to use it.

Re: Opening the Instapaper API

#4

Post by m3Lith » Thu, Jul 02, 2015, 9:27 AM UTC

insulanian wrote: post #2

Nice move, but I already moved to Pocket.

Interesting. I did the opposite a couple of months ago.

Re: Opening the Instapaper API

#5

Post by masklinn » Thu, Jul 02, 2015, 9:32 AM UTC

aaronem wrote: post #3

Instapaper is a lot stickier now. But the API appears to be write-only; neither there, nor anywhere else in the documentation, do I see any way to pull my data out of Instapaper if I should decide I no longer want to use it.

> But the API appears to be write-only

You can list your bookmarks (= saved articles), your folders and you can even fetch the processed-text HTML content for the bookmark, what else do you need?

Re: Opening the Instapaper API

#6

Post by johnchristopher » Thu, Jul 02, 2015, 9:53 AM UTC

insulanian wrote: post #2

Nice move, but I already moved to Pocket.

I am looking for something to replace pocket now that the old extension is dead and the new sucks. The service is still great on the phone but the firefox extension is crap:

- slow

- no red visual icon to signal the page is already stored

- no access to pages from firefox (bookmark not working for french locale or sthg)

- and the `new' button is just an add button that you have to stare at for 5 seconds because it will lose the focus and cancel the submission if you move to another tab.

Wallabag isn't quite ready yet :(.

Re: Opening the Instapaper API

#7

Post by axx » Thu, Jul 02, 2015, 9:59 AM UTC

I love this! I feared that Instapaper development would stagnate after Marco sold it. Even though he said that they will develop a lot of new features, you know how it often times is when companies/apps get bought.

But i'm happy to see quite the contrary!

What i love about Instapaper is the fact, that it doesn't fuck around. It tries to be one thing and one great thing only. I don't want to see tweets, i don't want to see related articles or what other people think besides my texts.

Instapaper comes as close to reading a ebook/book as it could get. At least for me.

Re: Opening the Instapaper API

#8

Post by john2x » Thu, Jul 02, 2015, 10:14 AM UTC

One gripe I have with Instapaper is how it formats code blocks. It doesn't look right at all (at least on the iPad version).

Re: Opening the Instapaper API

#9

Post by pornel » Thu, Jul 02, 2015, 10:21 AM UTC

john2x wrote: post #8

One gripe I have with Instapaper is how it formats code blocks. It doesn't look right at all (at least on the iPad version).

And they remove some images, so Wikipedia articles about math (with symbols as images) don't make sense. Diagrams and illustrations are often silently gone.

I keep reporting "some text/images missing", but overall I lost faith that I can read articles on Instapaper without missing anything.

Re: Opening the Instapaper API

#10

Post by totalcookie » Thu, Jul 02, 2015, 10:27 AM UTC

Too late. I was a long time, paying customer but moved to Pocket.