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I think Instapaper's bookmarklet scrapes the page if it's behind a pay wall, very clever. Edit: To clarify, by scraping I mean if you are logged in and can see
by starnix17 16y ago
I think Instapaper's bookmarklet scrapes the page if it's behind a pay wall, very clever.
Edit: To clarify, by scraping I mean if you are logged in and can see the article the bookmarkelet will grab the contents of the page.
- donohoe 16y agoI talked to Marco awhile back about how it works and if I remember correctly, this is not in fact the case. Instapaper honors access. If you have access to that Article it will save it, if not then you won't get it.
- bbatsell 16y agoWhat he meant is that the bookmarklet will actually scrape the content from within your browser and submit it to Instapaper if you have access and Instapaper's crawler doesn't. Marco has discussed that functionality on the Build and Analyze podcast.
- donohoe 16y agoYeah. Marco just tweeted via @instapaper: To the best of my knowledge, Instapaper will continue to work perfectly well after the NYTimes' paywall goes up, if you pay for it. and You will need to save NYTimes paywalled links from the bookmarklet or in-app browser. Links from Twitter/RSS apps probably won't work yet.