As we surf the web we find a lot of information that we might use later. We use different applications (Pocket app, Instapaper, Diigo, Evernote or other apps) to save links or notes what we find.

Instapaper is the simplest way to save and store articles for reading: offline, on-the-go, anytime, anywhere, perfectly formatted. Instapaper for Android provides a mobile and tablet-optimized Text view that makes reading Internet content a clean and uncluttered experience. Read offline, even on airplanes, subways, on elevators, or on Wi-Fi. Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone 8.1. See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for Save to Instapaper.

While many of the above applications have a lot of great features there still a lot of opportunities to automate some processes using web API that many of applications provide now.

This will allow to extend application functionality and eliminate some manual processes.

For Example: You have about 20 links that you want to send to pocket like application.
Another example: When you add link to one application you may be want also save link or note to Pocket app or to Instapaper application.
Or may be you want automatically (through script) extract links from some web sites and save them to your Pocket app.

In today post we will look at few examples that allow you start to do this. We will check how to use Pocket API and Instapaper API with python programming.

API for Pocket App

Pocket, previously known as Read It Later, is an application and service for managing a reading list of articles from the Internet. It is available on many different devices including web browsers. (Wikipedia)
There is great post[1] that is showing how to set up API for it. This post has detailed screenshots how to get all the needed identification information for successful login.

In summary you need get online consumer key for your api application then obtain token code via script. Then you can access the link that will include token and do authorization of application. After this you can use API for sending links.

Below is the summary python script to send the link to Pocket app including previous steps:

API for Instapaper

Instapaper Login With Mac App

Instapaper is a bookmarking service owned by Pinterest. It allows web content to be saved so it can be “read later” on a different device, such as an e-reader, smartphone, tablet. (Wikipedia)
Below is the code example how to send link to Instapaper. The code example is based on the script that I found on Internet [2]

Instapaper Login With App Online

References
1. Add Pocket API using Python – Tutorial
2. Instapaper

Save all of the interesting articles, videos, cooking recipes, song lyrics, or whatever else you come across while browsing. With one click, Instapaper lets you save, read, and manage the things you find on the Internet.

Instapaper syncs the articles and videos you save so that they’re waiting for you on all your devices - iPhone, iPad, Android, or Kindle. You can read anything you save, anywhere and anytime you want, even offline!

Instapaper Login With App Download

Find that great quote you want to remember and share? Instapaper makes it easy to highlight and comment on text in any article so you can easily store it, retrieve it, quote it and share it.