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Opening the Instapaper API

84 pointsby dsawalmost 10 years ago

11 comments

axxalmost 10 years ago
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&#x2F;apps get bought.<p>But i&#x27;m happy to see quite the contrary!<p>What i love about Instapaper is the fact, that it doesn&#x27;t fuck around. It tries to be one thing and one great thing only. I don&#x27;t want to see tweets, i don&#x27;t want to see related articles or what other people think besides my texts.<p>Instapaper comes as close to reading a ebook&#x2F;book as it could get. At least for me.
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totalcookiealmost 10 years ago
Too late. I was a long time, paying customer but moved to Pocket.
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piokochalmost 10 years ago
This surprises me a bit:<p>&quot;All requests should be made via the POST method, and all parameters should be passed in the POST request-body and not in the query-string.&quot;<p>So even typical GET are sent as POST (&#x2F;api&#x2F;1&#x2F;bookmarks&#x2F;list)<p>Is there any reason to do that?
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insulanianalmost 10 years ago
Nice move, but I already moved to Pocket.
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rb2k_almost 10 years ago
I still love the UI of instapaper a lot more than the one pocket has on their iOS version.<p>The main reason I switched to pocket was that Instapaper doesn&#x27;t seem to have support for PDFs.<p>I don&#x27;t need any of the &quot;position syncing&quot; and other stuff. I just want to be able to download the PDF and view it offline in the same app that helps me do this to blogposts.
john2xalmost 10 years ago
One gripe I have with Instapaper is how it formats code blocks. It doesn&#x27;t look right at all (at least on the iPad version).
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aaronemalmost 10 years ago
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.
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paulhallettalmost 10 years ago
All the methods that need to append `add`, `delete`, `update` to the URI. Why aren&#x27;t you just using HTTP methods for this?<p>Why do I have to POST everything? Do you know what POST is supposed to be used for?
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walterbellalmost 10 years ago
How do you find an RSS feed of all archived Instapaper articles? This is needed to connect Pinboard with Instapaper.
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thanalmost 10 years ago
This is perfect timing. I&#x27;ve had a back-burnered project waiting for a response from the API folks.
_pmf_almost 10 years ago
Get users -&gt; deactivate 3rd party access to API -&gt; lose users -&gt; reactivate 3rd party access<p>The circle of life. Wonderful.
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