Opening the Instapaper API

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.

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

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?

Nice move, but I already moved to Pocket.

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.

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).

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.

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?

How do you find an RSS feed of all archived Instapaper articles? This is needed to connect Pinboard with Instapaper.

This is perfect timing. I&#x27;ve had a back-burnered project waiting for a response from the API folks.

Get users -&gt; deactivate 3rd party access to API -&gt; lose users -&gt; reactivate 3rd party access<p>The circle of life. Wonderful.