First-party app
Instapaper Instapaper

Instapaper

Save, organize and read articles with Instapaper — bookmarks, folders and highlights over its OAuth 1.0a xAuth API.

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About

Instapaper ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 18 actions, 1 health check, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.

App id
io.w6w.instapaper
Version
0.1.1
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
Productivity

Overview

Instapaper is a read-it-later service: save an article’s URL and read a clean, distraction-free text version of it later, across devices. This app covers Instapaper’s Full API (instapaper.com/developers, its older but still-live and unchanged REST surface, verified against two live snapshots seven months apart) — the complete documented method set for bookmarks (list, add, delete, star/unstar, archive/unarchive, move, update reading progress, get the processed text view), folders (list, add, delete, reorder) and highlights (list, create, delete).

Authentication is Instapaper’s xAuth: a server-to-server exchange of the user’s Instapaper username/password for a long-lived OAuth 1.0a access token, signed with an app-level consumer key/secret Instapaper issues after a manual review. Every request after that is signed with OAuth 1.0a (HMAC-SHA1) — there is no bearer token or API key. Instapaper documents no token expiry and no refresh endpoint, so the exchanged token is used as-is; the account password is not retained.

Instapaper publishes no vendor status page (status.instapaper.com does not resolve; instapaper.statuspage.io is an unclaimed decoy) — the health check states that absence explicitly, and the derived credential check (account/verify_credentials) is the working signal for “is this connection live”.

Build with Instapaper

Three routes to the same 18 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Instapaper's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.

Get Current User

account-verify-credentials

Return the account this connection is authenticated as.

Add Bookmark

bookmarks-add

Save a URL to the user's Instapaper account.

Archive Bookmark

bookmarks-archive

Move a bookmark to the Archive.

Delete Bookmark

bookmarks-delete

Permanently delete a bookmark. This is NOT the same as archiving it.

Get Bookmark Text

bookmarks-get-text

Return the bookmark's processed, readable HTML.

List Bookmarks

bookmarks-list

List the user's bookmarks in a folder (or by tag), and sync reading positions.

Move Bookmark

bookmarks-move

Move a bookmark into a user-created folder.

Star Bookmark

bookmarks-star

Star a bookmark.

Unarchive Bookmark

bookmarks-unarchive

Move a bookmark from the Archive to the top of the Unread folder.

Unstar Bookmark

bookmarks-unstar

Remove the star from a bookmark.

Update Reading Progress

bookmarks-update-read-progress

Record the user's reading progress on a bookmark.

Add Folder

folders-add

Create an organizational folder.

Delete Folder

folders-delete

Delete a folder. Its bookmarks are moved to the Archive, not deleted.

List Folders

folders-list

List the account's user-created folders.

Set Folder Order

folders-set-order

Reorder the user's folders. Include every folder for a consistent result.

Create Highlight

highlights-create

Create a highlight on a bookmark. Non-subscribers are limited to 5 per month.

Delete Highlight

highlights-delete

Delete a highlight.

List Highlights

highlights-list

List the highlights saved against a bookmark. HTML in highlight text is returned unescaped.

A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the workflow spec, carrying Instapaper's real ids.

{
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "name": "instapaper-example",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "bookmarks-add",
      "uses": {
        "app": "io.w6w.instapaper",
        "action": "bookmarks-add",
        "connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
      },
      "with": {
        "url": "<url>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Add Bookmark

    perform
    bookmarks-add
  • Get Current User

    read
    account-verify-credentials
  • Get Bookmark Text

    read
    bookmarks-get-text
  • List Bookmarks

    search
    bookmarks-list
  • Move Bookmark

    perform
    bookmarks-move

+13 more actions available

Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account, so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Instapaper, then fill in the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but nothing in it is specific to Instapaper. The Workflow tab is where this app's real ids are.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";

// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();

const envelope = await client.run({
  urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
  action: "bookmarks-add",
  payload: {
    url: "<value>",
    // title: "<value>",
    // description: "<value>",
    // folderId: "<value>",
    // resolveFinalUrl: "<value>",
    // archived: "<value>",
    // tags: "<value>",
    // content: "<value>",
    // isPrivateFromSource: "<value>",
  },
});

if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
CLI
w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action bookmarks-add --payload '{"url":"<value>"}'

Give an AI agent Instapaper — without giving it Instapaper's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.

One tool call
{
  "name": "w6w_invoke",
  "arguments": {
    "ref": "app:io.w6w.instapaper#bookmarks-add",
    "input": {
      "url": "<url>"
    }
  }
}

Every tool names its target with a single ref. The app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the host resolves which of the caller's Instapaper connections to sign with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.

A durable workflow in one call

Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.

Health-aware discovery

Instapaper's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.

The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Instapaper itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).

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Health checks

Instapaper declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

service

Instapaper platform status