Advantage of wallabag over Instapaper / pocket ?
reddit / selfhosted

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kyrusdemnati · 2023-11-22 20:54

I've managed to self host on my server with a local address at least,
what's advantage of wallabag? Over others

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zenith-zox · 2023-11-22 21:05

Wallabag is pretty good at retrieving pages behind paywalls which the
others won't or can't do so well.

(I've self-hosted Wallabag happily for about 4 years now - but have
moved over to Omnivore which I'd recommend trying out. Really good for
annotations and less clunky UI than Wallabag. But Wallabag wins for
retrieving behind paywall pages, though.)

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kyrusdemnati · 2023-11-22 22:01

Behind paywall ?

So for example if I see an article being a paywall I can save to
wallabag and read it?

I tied fiery feeder iOS but I keep getting token error so sticking
with wallabag app for now
Will install on my android e reader and see how wallabag works there

I'm also self hosting

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esterf234 · 2023-11-23 06:28

wallabag offers greater control over your saved articles and data
compared to Instapaper or Pocket. Self-hosting provides added privacy
and security, allowing you to fully manage your content without
relying on third-party services.

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zenith-zox · 2023-11-23 08:51

Yes. It’s not perfect and a few sites don’t work (eg. Substack) but
I’ve found that generally, you can read most. Try it out and see.

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kyrusdemnati · 2023-11-23 10:07

Great yeh it worked for some

Gong to see how I can sync this to koreeader which I believe does rss
feeds

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kdecherf · 2023-11-23 15:46

(one of the wallabag core dev here)

Yeah, I must admit that I find the Omnivore's UI pretty neat. I would
like to work on a new frontend for wallabag but it's quite difficult
to find time for that 😅

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kdecherf · 2023-11-23 15:49

wallabag has the ability to use your site credentials to fetch
articles behind a paywall (for example
[lemonde.fr](https://lemonde.fr)). This does not work for all websites
as there is a need to specify how we connect to each site. There are
some limitations with websites rendered on client-side using JS as
well.

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Garret88 · 2023-11-23 21:36

Did you manage to selfhost omnivore? 👀

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zenith-zox · 2023-11-24 12:37

I did initially but it wasn't as fully-featured as the non-self-hosted
one. - so I'm using that currently. I keep my highlights and notes
synced to an Obsidian vault.