I just “announced” a little web app that I’ve been developing off and on called “Instascriber.” It’s basically a tool to help you populate your Instapaper reading list with stuff using an RSS Feed subscription model. If you use Instapaper a lot and use it to keep track of your reading list, you might want to automatically add new items, say from the New York Times Book section, into your Instapaper reading list. If you already know you’d like to read the content on Instapaper, it’s a pain to manually add each thing you want to read.
With Instascriber, you can just set the feed you’d like to subscribe to. Instascriber will periodically check the feed for new items and add it to your Instapaper reading list automatically in the background. That’s it. Boom!
For now, I’m considering the web app to be in beta. So let me know if you find bugs or anything.
I just found this on the Chrome web store, and it’s just what I’ve been waiting for! There are definitely several feeds I have in Google Reader that I always add to Instapaper, so why not have them just go there automatically?
I’m having issues with the following feed. The items don’t seem to show up in the instascriber interface. I also added another feed at the same time and items are showing up on the other feed.
http://fivefilters.org/content-only/makefulltextfeed.php?url=topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/thomaslfriedman/index.html%3Finline%3Dnyt-per%26rss%3D1&max=3
Thanks!
Hi, it’s not parsing my Google Reader starred items feed. It’s also not pulling in a couple of other RSS feeds I added to my Instascriber account. Not sure what to do? This is just the knid of service I was looking for. Thanks!
Just so you know, I’m trying to use this to fetch my Google Reader starred items, but it doesn’t seem to work! The app looks really great though, nice job and thanks!
Hi Hung,
I can’t see another place to post bug fixes, but right now I’m not seeing any subscriptions although I know that I’ve several. Is this related to the Google App engine time out yesterday?
Only 3 feeds?
How much would you be willing to pay for more than 3 feeds?
I’ve added a couple of feeds but it doesn’t seem to be working. These are RSS feeds that have been working fine in google reader. Is instascriber still supported?
It should still work. You might need to wait until new stuff is added to your feed for it to show up on instapaper.