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Description: Get a list of your Instapaper bookmarks (articles), select one and download it as markdown for convenient reading in Editorial - Preview Markdown.
Bloated Instapaper app is no longer required.
Credit to other workflows that I have relied upon.
[Download fails for some articles - paywalls, certificates etc.]

Shared by: chew-z

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Add your Instapaper feed url here ?
Variable Name
instapaper_feed
Value
If… ?
Run the block if
Input
  • is Equal to
  • is Not Equal to
  • Contains
  • Doesn't Contain
  • Matches Regular Expression
https://www.instapaper.com/rss/
Stop ?
Stop
  • This Workflow
  • Repeat Block
Show HUD Alert
ON
Message
Add your Instapaper feed URL
…End If
Creates empty var for the json ?
Variable Name
instapaper_json
Value
Input
Create variable storing article filename ?
Variable Name
filename
Value
Article
Parses the feed and returns the page titles ?
Source Code
#coding: utf-8
import workflow
import feedparser
import json

feed = workflow.get_variable('instapaper_feed')
parse = feedparser.parse(feed)

parse_dict = {item['title']: item['link'] for item in parse['entries']}
parse_titles = '\n'.join(parse_dict.keys())
instapaper_json = json.dumps(parse_dict)

workflow.set_variable('instapaper_json', instapaper_json)
workflow.set_output(parse_titles)
Select from List ?
Title
Select an Article
List (Lines)
Input
Multiple Selection
OFF
Show in Popover
ON
Scrap page of selected bookmark as markdown ?
Source Code
#coding: utf-8
import workflow
import json
import requests
import html2text


def get_page(url):
  try:
    headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)',
    'Referer': 'https://www.google.com/'
    }
    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    # print(response.headers)
    # requests stick to RFC assuming ISO-8859-1
    if response.encoding == 'ISO-8859-1':
      response.encoding = 'UTF-8'
    return response.text
  except Exception as err:
    sys.stderr.write('ERROR: %s\n' % str(err))

h = html2text.HTML2Text()
h.ignore_links = True
h.skip_internal_links = True
h.ignore_images = True
h.body_width = 0
h.unicode_snob = True
instapaper_json = json.loads(workflow.get_variable('instapaper_json'))
article_title = workflow.get_input()
# print(article_title)
url = instapaper_json[article_title]
# print(url)
workflow.set_variable('filename', article_title + '.md')
try:
  html = get_page(url)
  text = h.handle(html)
  workflow.set_output(text)
except Exception as err:
  sys.stderr.write('ERROR: %s\n' % str(err))
Create Document ?
Filename
filename
Content
Input
Open in Editor
ON