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I wrote a (poor cousin) version of Instapaper for Android. Search the marketplace for BenPaper. I wanted to dump the iPhone for Android, but the thought of hav

I wrote a (poor cousin) version of Instapaper for Android. Search the marketplace for BenPaper. I wanted to dump the iPhone for Android, but the thought of having a phone without Instapaper (or similar) was too much to bear! I wasn't sure whether to open-source the code or not, it's pretty poor quality at the moment, but gets the job done. At the moment it pushes the content through the Google mobile web rendered to strip the unnecessary content. Does anyone know if the Instapaper parser has a public API? I assumed it didn't... It needs lots of work but if you have any comments/suggestions please let me know. Thanks.

dabeeeenster 17y ago
Also, is it just me or is it crazy that there's no public URL to a specific Android app? What's that all about? The only way I can currently view feedback to the app is by borrowing a colleague's G1!
- Tichy 17y ago
  I agree, that sucks. Hopefully they'll change that soon. iPhone App store didn't have web sites for the longest time, but I think they changed it recently. Although it is still hard to find - I have seen web links to apps, but have been unable to create them myself. Btw another silly trap with the Android Marketplace: apparently they only show you the comments in the language of your phone settings. A friend of mine has created a German language app, but his phone is set to English. It was only a couple of weeks later that he discovered there already were several comments for his app.