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by blueagle7 2715 days ago
Would love if I could sync up with my Pocket list and download all of my articles.
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burtonator 2715 days ago
Ah. Check out Polar. Same thing only better
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blueagle7 2715 days ago
I just did haha I wish I wish there was an easy way for me to import all of my Pocket articles into Polar without doing them manually. I guess i'll do the research to figure out a way to script this.
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AJRF 2715 days ago
You can make your pocket RSS feed public and then write a python script to download all the urls returned by the data dump of the feed.

I did something like this for a side project, you can check out he code: https://github.com/afallon02/pocket2kindle

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blueagle7 2715 days ago
Thanks this was really helpful.
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burtonator 2715 days ago
Yeah.. Import I think is going to be big feature for us as we try to convert people from Mendeley, and Pocket which have huge existing repositories. I don't have that problem yet.

Right now Polar can import a whole directory full of PDFs but that doesn't really get tagging.

I might end up building a file format so that we can do imports.

So you could take the Pocket RSS list, then convert it to the Polar import format, then just import that directly.

We would probably try to bundle up standard importers though.

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