Instapaper 2 Evernote

1. Log into Instapaer, copy This folder RSS link at the bottom
2. Paste it here: http://fulltextrssfeed.com/, copy the resulting RSS url


Install rss2email script on your server

Download or install package, for Ubuntu it would be:

apt-get install rss2email

Configure RSS2email

r2e new you.12345@m.evernote.com

where you.12345@m.evernote.com is your secret Evernote email

Copy sample config file:

cp /usr/share/doc/rss2email/examples/config.py ~/.rss2email

set UTF-8 as your first encoding

If necessary, change the script to append the name of your Evernote notepad to each email’s subject line:

open /usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py in any text editor (for example, nano or vim)

replace this line:
msg['Subject'] = Header(unicode(subject), header_charset)

with this one:
msg['Subject'] = Header(unicode(subject+' @Instapaper'), header_charset)


Where Instapaper is the name of your Evernote notepad. You can also add tags, see description in Evernote’s blog.


Add RSS url from step to rss2email by executing this:

r2e add url_of_your_rss_feed

Run rss2email to test if it works:
r2e run

In a couple of minutes your recent Instapaper notes should appear in your Evernote.

Now add cron job:

crontab -e

add line:

*/360 * * * * r2e run

where 360 is number of minutes, meaning „run this script every 6 hours“


Remember there’s a limit of 50 emails to Evernote per day.