Single-keystroke Instapaper in Google Reader
This was a quick plugin I put together last night when I got too frustrated to work on my actual jobs. It lets you define a single shortcut key which, after you input your Instapaper username and password, will let you send the currently-selected article in Google Reader straight to Instapaper. It works fine with themes like Helvetireader (Safari extension), and functions in both list view and expanded view.
Click below to download, unzip the extension and double click it to install. Head for Preferences->Extensions and set up your Instapaper username and password, and pick a hotkey. The default hotkey is “i”, which doesn’t interfere with existing Google shortcuts. Tailor to taste.
The only issue I’m having right now is that it doesn’t fail properly if you have an incorrect user/pass combination. It tells you it succeeded, but doesn’t post to your account. I’ll have to add a verification step at some point in the process. For now, if things aren’t showing up in Instapaper for you, check your username and password in the Extensions preferences. Be sure to check out Instapaper Beyond, too!
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GReader Instapaper — Adds single-keystroke sending of the current article in Google Reader to your Instapaper account. More Info
Hey, this is great, and the notifications’ display format is an unexpected bonus. I would like the notifications to stay up for a much shorter time, though — could you either reduce the timing or introduce a preference for this?
Definitely. I considered that at the time, but I was concerned that I’d made them too light and they wouldn’t be noticed :). I’ll push an update in the next couple of days that will take care of that.
that’s nice and that but, Google Reader has built in support for sending of links to instapaper and to other services you can decode the url to. in the preferences send to options.
If you make use of the keyboard navigation that makes GReader my favorite way to read RSS feeds, clicking the Send To menu selecting your option and handling followup dialogs is just a pain in the ass. A single keystroke is preferable, at least to me.
Instapapers official bookmarklet works in Google Reader too. I’m just pressing ⌘-1 (the bookmarklet sits in Safaris Bookmarks Bar) and i’m done.
Now, that I’ll give you. Late last night when I wrote this, I totally forgot that Marco had already made that work. I should sleep more.
And I thought I was the senbisle one. Thanks for setting me straight.
It doesn’t seem to like functioning for instapaper accounts that don’t have a password set… is it just me, or is that a bug?
Quite possibly a bug, I haven’t tested it without a password yet.
I think I fixed this in the 0.2 update that I just pushed. Make sure the extension is updated in your preferences panel and see if it makes a difference for you.
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Great tool. I would love to have similar functionality to transfer stuff directly from Google Reader or Instapaper into Evernote.…(preferably using the reduced content provided by Safari Reader)
That’s actually feasible using the hacked up version of the Evernote clipper I made for the Antique Reader hack. It allows you to pass in your own title and url, then handles the clipping part on its own. I’ll see if I can make the time to cut this together with that and make a single-keystroke Reader->Evernote extension :).
Do you still think that you’ll find time to put this together?
I really would love it.
Thanks,
LagaV
The new Evernote clipper that came out last week will actually make it even easier, I think. I’ll definitely try to take a look at it this weekend. Adding to the to-do list :).
Cool! I’m looking forward to Monday. Many thanks.
Is there still hope to see some kind of tool for Instapaper / Google Reader / Evernote data archiving?
It could happen, but I’m juggling way too much right now to make any promises. Definitely still on the project list, though.
Man this tool will help me alot. Really great.
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