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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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1222 points phantomathkg | 4 comments | 22 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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_def ◴[22 May 25 17:27 UTC] No.44064357[source]▶
> Your export file will include links (URLs) of your saved items. The export does not extract the text of saved links. Additionally, the export does not contain tags or highlights.

boo! without the tags, the links will be mostly useless for me. Every now and then I thought aboyt switching to some self-hosted solution. Should've done it sooner... and I will never trust Mozilla with any service again.

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tristanho ◴[22 May 25 18:16 UTC] No.44065001[source]▶
You can connect Pocket to Readwise Reader ( readwise.io/reader ), via Pocket's API, which will let Reader view all the tags, metadata, highlights, etc.

Even if you didn't want to use Reader, you could then export from inside Reader and Readwise to pull out CSVs of all of your articles+highlights -- no subscription required.

(full disclosure: founder of Readwise here, obviously if you want to try our Reader app that would be sweet, but at least wanted to offer this way to get a more complete export)

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1. uxcolumbo ◴[22 May 25 18:51 UTC] No.44065377[source]▶
So your app will also import the archived copies from Pocket? It's mainly about importing archived content from links that might now be dead.
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2. tristanho ◴[22 May 25 18:58 UTC] No.44065456[source]▶
No, unfortunately their API doesn't return the actual html content of the saved articles :( just the urls and all the metadata: highlights, title, author, image, tags, location, etc

I really wish they did :/ some things aren't even on the internet archive and are probably saved uniquely on Pocket's servers. Would be sweet if they could open source that data.

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3. uxcolumbo ◴[22 May 25 19:23 UTC] No.44065764[source]▶
Would be awesome if your app could scrape the actual pocket pages.

I'd sign up for a paid version of yours if it had that feature. But I'm not sure how many others premium users would do the same.

4. no_wizard ◴[22 May 25 19:51 UTC] No.44066086[source]▶
something these other apps could do is run dead URLs through archive.org and nab it that way.

Not 100% foolproof but I'm willing to bet it will work for the majority of links