Google Reader added a way to share posts in a number of other services, such as Facebook and Twitter. In addition, they offer a way to build your own custom links right into Google Reader. Upon seeing this, I immediately thought of making an Instapaper link so I can read posts later on my iPhone.
Here is how I did it:
- In Google Reader, go to Settings and click to the Send To tab
- Hit “Create Custom Link”
- Enter a name, I used “Instapaper”
- For the URL enter this, but replace YOURUSERNAME with your username:
- https://www.instapaper.com/api/add?username=YOURUSERNAME&url=${url}&title=${title}
- If you have a password, put this instead (Replace with your password):
- https://www.instapaper.com/api/add?username=YOURUSERNAME&password=YOURPASSWORD&url=${url}&title=${title}
- You don’t have to use an image, but if you would like to, feel free to use mine:
http://www.willw.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/instapaper.png- If it is working, a new tab will pop up with “201″ each time to send an item to Instapaper.
There are many other services that this could work for too.
This doesn't seem to be working. I get a new 201 tab, but the {url} and {title} fields aren't updated.
Interesting, for some reason WordPress removed the $ from in front of {url} and {title} – sorry about that! Here is the fixed code:
https://www.instapaper.com/api/add?username=YOU...
or
https://www.instapaper.com/api/add?username=YOU...
Let me know if you have any more problems with it.
Yeah, I just caught the dollar sign problem my self. All good now! Thanks for the tip!
Very cool! Thanks for alerting me to your addition to the new GReader “save as” feature. This is going to make things so much easier, and I'll be using Instapaper lots more now. :)
Thanks!
I usually end up keeping a number of posts unread because I don't have time to read them right away, and it gets very annoying. Now with this Instapaper link my Google Reader is all cleaned up!
This is awesome. Thanks!
They already added instapaper to the default send to items. When I refresed the page to add it, it was already there.
Heheh ya they did that yesterday, a few days after I wrote this – I
will update the post when I get a chance. Thanks!
They already added instapaper to the default send to items. When I refresed the page to add it, it was already there.
Heheh ya they did that yesterday, a few days after I wrote this – I
will update the post when I get a chance. Thanks!