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Comment by starnix17 | Hacker News Reader

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.

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I 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.

What 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.

Yeah. 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.

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