Show HN: Instaparser – An API for Instapaper's parser (instaparser.com)

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Brian Donohue from Instapaper here. Over the past few years we've gotten a significant number of requests from developers to have access to Instapaper's parser. Today we launched Instaparser, an API to access Instapaper's parser.

Instaparser is a paid service, but there's a free tier under https://www.instaparser.com/signup/trial that can be used for testing or just quick weekend hacks.

Personally, this is the first developer-focused product I've launched, and I'm very excited to get it out into the community and see what people will do with it.

fiatjaf 10y ago ↗

Some time ago I would be madly looking for this. The prices are much much better than https://www.diffbot.com/pricing/

bthdonohue 10y ago ↗

It's also a lot faster than Diffbot. We were using Diffbot at Instapaper before launching the new parser, and our total parsing time dropped an order of magnitude: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/staticinstapaper/blog/par...

rahimnathwani 10y ago ↗

This is cool. Fivefilters does something similar with their fulltextrss product. Despite the name, it also works for single pages, e.g. http://ftr.fivefilters.org/makefulltextfeed.php?url=http%3A%...

I haven't compared parsing quality.