Wolph

Batch adding data to Pocket

Rick van Hattem

For some reason I do not understand, Pocket seems to have no support for batch adding articles to the reading list. After looking around quite a bit it doesn’t even seem possible to get a simple add url so you can add them with a little batch script…

Since I still wanted to have my articles added I have written a little script to do so. It requires the Pocket library (pip install pocket) and works out of the box beyond that.

Save as add_to_pocket.py and make sure you replace the consumer_key in the code. You can get the key from http://getpocket.com/developer/apps/new

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
from pocket import Pocket

consumer_key = '18520-5994fa9c319241166deaf6b4'

request_token = Pocket.get_request_token(
    consumer_key=consumer_key,
    redirect_uri='http://wol.ph/',
)

auth_url = Pocket.get_auth_url(
    code=request_token,
    redirect_uri='http://wol.ph/',
)
print('Please authorize the app using the following url and press ENTER here')
print(auth_url)
input()

access_token = Pocket.get_access_token(
    consumer_key=consumer_key,
    code=request_token,
)
print('Got authenticated request token')
print(request_token)


def add_url(url):
    print('adding', url)
    print(pocket_instance.add(url=url))


pocket_instance = Pocket(consumer_key, access_token)
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
    if arg.startswith('http'):
        add_url(arg)
    else:
        print('Reading urls from %r' % arg)
        for line in open(arg):
            add_url(line)

Usage is quite simple:

python add_to_pocket.py http://w.wol.ph/2013/09/18/batch-adding-data-to-pocket/

Or if you have a list of urls:

python add_to_pocket.py urls.txt

If people are interested I can make it into a web-app, but for the time being it solved my issue 🙂

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