Well, I have this one 99% solved. But the last 1% keeps it from working at all.
Using Automator, I was able to create a “Quick Action” (neé “Service”) that will add a given URL to Instapaper by creating a shell script .
That part works great.
However:
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there is no “Copy URL of the Article That You Are Reading” in NetNewsWire, so there’s no easy way to trigger this.
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And it apparently has to be a URL. If it is is a link such as
<a href=http://google.com>Search Here</a>
and you right click on that link, then choose “Services” and use one of the actions which takes a URL, it appears that NNW is sending “Search Here” rather than the URL.
I don’t know how to get around that.
FWIW, here’s a shell script which will take some input, look for a URL, and if it finds one, will try to add it to Instapaper.
It requires that you put in your Instapaper username and password into variables (or you can use keychain, as I explain below).
Maybe someone else can use this to come up with a working solution.
Although it might look complex, the real “meat” of it is just this part:
curl --dump-header - --location --silent \
--basic --user "${INSTAPAPER_USERNAME}:${INSTAPAPER_PASSWORD}" \
--data-urlencode "url=$URL" https://www.instapaper.com/api/add
That assumes you have 3 variables defined:
INSTAPAPER_USERNAMEINSTAPAPER_PASSWORDURL
The rest is just error checking. It will also use terminal-notifier or growlnotify (if found) to tell the user what is happening, because otherwise there is no way to know if it worked or not if you are using it from a service.
#!/usr/bin/env zsh -f
# Purpose: Send a URL to Instapaper
#
# From: Timothy J. Luoma
# Mail: luomat at gmail dot com
# Date: 2019-08-30
NAME="$0:t:r"
if [ -e "$HOME/.path" ]
then
source "$HOME/.path"
else
PATH=/usr/local/scripts:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin
fi
function msg {
echo "$NAME: $@"
if (( $+commands[terminal-notifier] ))
then
terminal-notifier -appIcon https://images.luo.ma/appicons/terminal-notifier/instapaper.png -message "$@" -title "$NAME"
elif (( $+commands[growlnotify] ))
then
growlnotify \
--appIcon "NetNewsWire" \
--identifier "$NAME" \
--message "$@" \
--title "$NAME"
fi
}
if [[ "$#" == "0" ]]
then
msg "$NAME: No Arguments given!"
exit 1
fi
# This is my attempt at parsing the input. It's not very complicated or smart.
# All it does it take all of the info given to it and replaces every space with
# a newline, and then looks for a 'http' at the start of the newline. If it finds
# more than one, it will just use the first one.
URL=$(echo "$@" | tr ' ' '\012' | egrep -i '^http' | head -1)
# if no URLs are found, complain and quit immediately
if [[ "$URL" == "" ]]
then
msg "$NAME: No URL found in input: ($@)!"
exit 1
fi
############################################################################################################################################################
# The easy way to store your Instapaper credentials is to put them in a plain text file with this format:
#
# INSTAPAPER_USERNAME='you@example.com'
# INSTAPAPER_PASSWORD='Su8ers3kr3t'
#
# but that's obviously not the most secure idea ever. You could fetch them from your Keychain using these lines instead:
#
# INSTAPAPER_USERNAME=$(security find-internet-password -s www.instapaper.com 2>&1 | awk -F'"' '/acct/{print $4}')
# INSTAPAPER_PASSWORD=$(security find-internet-password -gs www.instapaper.com 2>&1 | awk -F'"' '/^password/{print $2}')
#
# the first time you run the script you will see a prompt which says something like
# 'security wants to use your confidential information stored in "www.instapaper.com" in your keychain'
INSTAPAPER_USERNAME='you@example.com'
INSTAPAPER_PASSWORD='Su8ers3kr3t'
STATUS=$(curl --location --silent --basic \
--user "${INSTAPAPER_USERNAME}:${INSTAPAPER_PASSWORD}" \
https://www.instapaper.com/api/authenticate)
if [[ "$STATUS" == "200" ]]
then
msg "$NAME: Verified login, now adding $URL..."
IFS=$'\n' RESULT=($(curl --dump-header - --location --silent \
--basic --user "${INSTAPAPER_USERNAME}:${INSTAPAPER_PASSWORD}" \
--data-urlencode "url=$URL" https://www.instapaper.com/api/add \
| tr -d '\r' \
| egrep '^(Content-Location|X-Instapaper-Title): '))
FINAL_URL=$(echo "$RESULT[1]" | sed 's#^Content-Location: ##g')
FINAL_TITLE=$(echo "$RESULT[2]" | sed 's#^X-Instapaper-Title: ##g')
if [ "$FINAL_URL" = "" -o "$FINAL_TITLE" = "" ]
then
msg "Error! Either FINAL_URL or FINAL_TITLE is empty!"
exit 1
else
msg "Success: '${FINAL_TITLE}'"
exit 0
fi
else
msg "FATAL ERROR: Status = $STATUS"
exit 1
fi
exit 0
Take that file, save it as /usr/local/bin/send-to-instapaper.sh (creating /usr/local/bin/ if necessary) and then make it executable:
chmod 700 /usr/local/bin/send-to-instapaper.sh
Then add your Instapaper username and password to it where shown.
Once you’ve done that, using it is simply a matter of:
/usr/local/bin/send-to-instapaper.sh https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/microsoft-says-mandatory-password-changing-is-ancient-and-obsolete/
and it will tell you if it worked or not.