Snow Leopard Services... pt2, instapaper

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Snow Leopard Services… pt2, instapaper

Since getting Instapaper Pro for my iPod, I’ve been loving the ability to add links to my instapaper just by tapping on them, rather than (on my laptop) having to follow a link to its webpage, wait for it to load, and then hit the bookmarklet to send it to IP. So I made a service to duplicate that functionality on my Macbook. Once installed, you can select any URL in any application, and any link in Safari and send it to Instapaper in the background. You’ll get notified via Growl or the OS.

Update— Sending the first page of multipage articles to instapaper got annoying so I’ve made it so that if you’re sending an article from any of the following sites it will send the full page version of the article.: NYTimes, Slate, Salon, the New Yorker, Daily Beast, Washington Post, or Wired

For NetNewsWire users (adds the ability to send links in NNW as well as other apps):
InstapaperIt.zip

For Everyone else:
InstapaperIt.zip