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Save from your RSS reader

An RSS reader is where a lot of good links show up first. Most readers let you add your own share destination — a URL that the reader fills in with the article’s address and title — so you can send an article to Bredbox and keep reading.

All of these use the same save link. The only thing that changes between readers is how they spell their placeholders.

Feedly

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Custom Sharing is a Feedly Pro feature.

  1. Open Feedly’s Saving & Sharing settings.

  2. Tick the Custom Sharing checkbox to turn the tool on.

  3. In the text box underneath, enter:

    https://bredbox.app/library/add?url={url}&title={title}

  4. Save your preferences.

With an article open, click the Custom Sharing button — the paper plane — and Bredbox opens with the article ready to save.

Feedbin

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  1. Open Feedbin’s Sharing settings.

  2. Add a custom sharing service.

  3. Name it Bredbox and give it this URL:

    https://bredbox.app/library/add?url=${url}&title=${title}

  4. Save.

Bredbox now appears in the share menu on every article.

Inoreader

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  1. Open Preferences → Sharing. You can also get there from an article: click the arrow next to the sharing icons and choose Customize.

  2. Add a custom sharing service and name it Bredbox.

  3. Use this URL, sent as a GET request:

    https://bredbox.app/library/add?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

  4. Save, and move Bredbox into your first three sharing options if you want it visible without opening the menu.

Any other reader

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If your reader supports custom sharing, it will document its own placeholders. Take the save link and substitute them:

https://bredbox.app/library/add?url=<article URL>&title=<article title>

The three syntaxes above cover most readers:

Reader Placeholders
Feedly {url} and {title}
Feedbin ${url} and ${title}
Inoreader [URL] and [TITLE]

Two things to check if it doesn’t work:

  • Use a GET request if the reader offers a choice. Bredbox reads the values from the address.
  • Let the reader do the encoding. Readers percent-encode placeholder values for you; don’t wrap them in quotes or encode them a second time.

The title half is always optional. Drop it and Bredbox works the title out from the page:

https://bredbox.app/library/add?url={url}

What happens when you share

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The save link opens Bredbox’s Save a Link page with the article filled in. Click Save and it lands in your library, where Bredbox fetches the site name, description, preview image, and reading content the same way it would for any other save.

If you share the same article twice, Bredbox updates the save you already have instead of creating a duplicate.

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