Open source Pocket code

Note for those reading:

open-pocket is just an idea at this point, not software you can install.

I think this[0] comes close to what is used to extract text from an HTML document. Fetching can be done via any HTTP client. Will need jsdom to convert the text to DOM before feeding it to readability.

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/readability

Try Wallabag.

data mining for advertisers

Calling it (or instapaper) a bookmarking tool is rather underselling what they're doing. They're not a list of URLs for you to find later (possibly repeatedly).

That doesn't seem quite true... the first comment here links to open pocket which links to a discussion in a github ticket with the previously closed source pocket team where they note they are a small team and just have not had a lot of bandwidth to cleanup the formerly closed source server. That discussion was last summer.

https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75...

This comment in particular.

It downloads the bookmarked content, it allows you to organise it with tags and such, and archive it. And it's cross platform ( i can save an article on my computer and it will be downloaded on my phone).

I consider it more a distributed to-read list than a bookmark manager.

If you have a Kobo e-reader, you can sync the articles to read them offline on an eInk display.

It keeps track of what you read.

It has more context when browsing, instead of just the website's title.

There's more to it.

I don't use it these days, but when I was heavily commuting on the London tube I used it a lot.

Pocket is an offline reader (and content reformatter), like instapaper, it's a rather different use case than bookmarks.

I don't bookmark articles I intend to read, but I do shove them in pocket, from where I can access them later then mark them as read.

It used to have text-to-speech functions. I even made lo-fi hip-hop type music using Pocket.