The relationship between Readability and Instapaper

Re:The relationship between Readability and Instapaper by nikcub on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @11:33PM (#3246398)

So I looked into all of these some time ago for an app that I use myself. The Safari fork of Readability is the best client implementation, while the best server-side implementation (by a mile) is Diffbot.

Out of the 50 sources I had (regular RSS updates, etc.) InstaPaper failed on far too many, either stripping important content or pictures and captions. Readability was only a bit better

I glued together an app that will pull in RSS, send each URL to diffbot, and then collate the output into a reader that I use. Never thought of releasing it as an app, I just use it myself.

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Re:The relationship between Readability and Instapaper by admp on Thursday November 17, 2011 @04:58PM (#3249410)

Thanks for introducing me to Diffbot.

From your comment I expected it to be an open source implementation, but a high-quality SaaS with 50,000 API calls/mo on the free plan is still pretty damn good.

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Re:The relationship between Readability and Instapaper by tszming on Thursday November 17, 2011 @04:42AM (#3247069)

Readability's code is a little bit old (2009), but seems no other better (opensource) alternatives...

And thanks for suggesting Diffbot, will try later.

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Re:The relationship between Readability and Instapaper by albertogh on Thursday November 17, 2011 @07:20AM (#3247387)

C implementation and Python bindings, opensourced one hour ago https://github.com/fiam/readable

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Re:The relationship between Readability and Instapaper by abrowne on Thursday November 17, 2011 @01:49PM (#3248718)

Maybe the name is generic enough, but I'm wondering if you're aware of Readable[1].

[1]: http://readable.tastefulwords.com/

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