Get article text
The cleaned text of one saved article, with title, author and word count.
MCP tool instapaper_read → get_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. |
tools/call
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "instapaper_read",
"arguments": {
"operation": "get_article_text",
"arguments": {
"bookmark_id": 1
}
}
}
}Example response
{
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "{ ... same JSON as structuredContent ... }"
}
],
"structuredContent": {
"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..."
},
"isError": false
}