Import From Instapaper via NetNewsWire
Summary: Imports unread articles from your Instapaper subscription in NetNewsWire.
Requires: Instapaper, NetNewsWire 3
Install Location: ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/NetNewsWire/
Last Modified: 2019-05-24
Description
Go to your Instapaper in Safari, either the main Unread view or a particular folder. Click the RSS button. (With Safari 6 you would need to install Subscribe to Feed.) This should create a subscription for it in NetNewsWire. When you run this script, EagleFiler will import any unread articles from that subscription. It will then mark them as read in NetNewsWire, so they aren’t re-imported the next time you run the script.
Note: This script requires NetNewsWire 3 because NetNewsWire 4 is not sufficiently AppleScriptable.
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Script
tell application id "com.ranchero.NetNewsWire"
-- Enter your Instapaper feed's URL here. It may be something like:
-- https://www.instapaper.com/rss/12345/abcdef
set _instapaperURL to "http://www.instapaper.com/u"
set _feed to first subscription whose home URL starts with _instapaperURL
-- Or, to import the selected feed (works for any feed, not just Instapaper):
-- set _feed to selectedSubscription
set _headlines to _feed's headlines
repeat with _headline in _headlines
tell _headline
if not isRead then
my importURL(URL)
set isRead to true
end if
end tell
end repeat
end tell
on importURL(_url)
tell application "EagleFiler"
-- To import using the format currently chosen in the preference:
import URLs {_url}
-- You can also specify a particular format:
-- import URLs {_url} Web page format Web archive format
end tell
end importURL