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title: Instapaper Launches Full API
url: http://apievangelist.com/2011/02/10/instapaper-launches-full-api/
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author:
  name: kinlane
tags:
- API Evangelist
- APIs
- Authentication
- Data
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[Instapaper](http://www.instapaper.com/) just launched a [Full API](http://www.instapaper.com/api/full) giving developers access to web pages that Instagram users have saved to read later.

The API provides full Instapaper account access, but can only access web page bookmarks from paid-subscriber accounts.

Those who haven't paid the $1/month fee for an Instapaper account will still be able to submit to Instapaper using the [Instapaper Simple API](http://www.instapaper.com/api/simple).

The API uses oAuth 2.0 for authentication and provide a set of helper libraries to get going.

Instapaper API services and endpoints are:

**Account / Authentication**

*   /api/1/oauth/access\_token
*   /api/1/account/verify\_credentials

**Web Page Bookmarks**

*   /api/1/bookmarks/list
*   /api/1/bookmarks/update\_read\_progress
*   /api/1/bookmarks/add
*   /api/1/bookmarks/delete
*   /api/1/bookmarks/star
*   /api/1/bookmarks/unstar
*   /api/1/bookmarks/archive
*   /api/1/bookmarks/unarchive
*   /api/1/bookmarks/move
*   /api/1/bookmarks/get\_text

**Folders**

*   /api/1/folders/list
*   /api/1/folders/add
*   /api/1/folders/delete
*   /api/1/folders/set\_order

Instapaper has provided some insight on its blog regarding [why it chose to provide Full API access to data from paid accounts](http://blog.instapaper.com/post/3208433429). It's a new and interesting perspective to the classic arguement of freemium versus paid accounts.

The first application developed using the Full API is [Stacks for Instapaper](http://wp7wonders.wordpress.com/stacks-for-instapaper/), a Windows Phone 7 client. developed by Matthieu Guyonnet-Duluc. More applications are sure to come.