Improving saves from Twitter and YouTube
Being able to save tweet threads has been a top feature request this year, and we’re excited to be introducing full support for tweets–and tweet threads–on Instapaper. We’ve also rebuilt our YouTube integration for better reliability and additional functionality.
When you save any tweet (even if you’re mid-thread), Instapaper will pull the tweet and thread into an article that you can easily read, highlight, and take notes on. Any images that are part of the thread will be included in the article, and we’ll be exploring how to support other embedded media, like videos, for future updates.
Additionally, Instapaper pulls tweet quotes from the threads into blockquotes in the article:
Instapaper will automatically parse individual tweets, but in order to support threads and tweet quotes you will need to connect your Twitter account in your Instapaper account settings.
Earlier this year, YouTube began rate limiting requests from Instapaper which led to content from YouTube not rendering or playing directly within Instapaper. We’ve built a completely new parser for YouTube saves, so video saves and playback will be far more reliable going forward. Any content already in your account that was not playing within Instapaper should now work as expected.
We’ve also added channel names and video duration information to the saves. This is present on the Instapaper website as of right now and will be added to the mobile apps in our next release so you can see how long a video is the same way you can see estimated article reading time. Thanks again for all the requests and feedback around YouTube saves.
In other news, we’ve spent the majority of 2021 working on an infrastructure project that brings improved stability and performance to Instapaper. We’re happy to share that infrastructure project is now complete, and we’re shifting back to building new features.
As part of that work, we want to hear your questions, feature requests, and/or issues. That feedback directly informs our roadmap, and we’d love to hear from you via email to support@help.instapaper.com or @InstapaperHelp on Twitter.
Thank you for using Instapaper!
– Instapaper Team