Get article text
The cleaned text of one saved article, with title, author and word count.
GET https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/instapaper/bookmarks/{bookmark_id}/article-text
read
Returns the article body Instapaper shows in its reader view, with title, author, published date, word count and the image URLs kept in the body. A paywalled flag says when the page looked paywalled and the body may be only a preview. The kind says whether the item is an article, email, video, PDF or social post. Read-only, nothing in the account changes.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| bookmark_id integer required | integer | Bookmark ID from list_bookmarks. |
| max_chars integer | integer | Cut the text after this many characters. Default: the whole article. |
Request
curl https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/instapaper/bookmarks/1/article-text \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY"result = client.call("instapaper", "get_article_text", {"bookmark_id":1})const result = await cotlet.call('instapaper', 'get_article_text', {"bookmark_id":1});cotlet call instapaper get_article_text --data '{"bookmark_id":1}'Example response
{
"bookmark_id": 1893240551,
"title": "How to Salt Pasta Water",
"author": "Rosa Delgado",
"published_at": "2026-07-29T09:00:00Z",
"kind": "article",
"words": 1180,
"paywalled": false,
"text": "Most home cooks under-salt the water. The usual advice is a tablespoon per quart, but..."
}