Support for sites that require logins

February 10, 2010 2 min read

Instapaper now supports these sites that require logins for premium, single-page, or all content:

  • Ars Technica
  • Autosport.com
  • Baseball Prospectus
  • Chronicle.com
  • Economist
  • ESPN Insider
  • Financial Times
  • Harper’s
  • Liberation.fr
  • LRB
  • LWN
  • New York Review of Books
  • Newsday
  • WSJ

It works by sending a copy of the page as you’re viewing it to Instapaper’s text engine when you click the Read Later bookmarklet. (This requires the newest bookmarklet, which came out last August.) This means:

  • It’s nearly immune to character-encoding or HTML-parsing bugs on these sites.
  • It can support almost any site that requires logins or subscription accounts, although I need to add it to the list first. But:
  • It will not automatically choose the Print/single-page view. You need to view the single-page version, then click Read Later.

Support the publishers you love. I got a Harper’s subscription to use with this feature, and I’m eyeing The Economist as well. If you’re a geek like me, you should also consider getting an Ars Technica Premier subscription, which offers now-Instapaper-compatible single-page versions of all of their multi-page stories. (Definitely subscribe to Ars Premier before John Siracusa reviews the next version of OS X.)

Soon, I’ll let you add your own sites to this list for your account. But while this feature is still young, I’m going to add them manually.

Which subscription-requiring sites should I add? Answer here or email me. When requesting a site, please tell me if the subscriber content is served from a different domain, or a subdomain, from the main site. Thanks.

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