nicolevanderhoeven / shortform-to-readwise

Imports highlights from Shortform.com to Readwise.io.

Shortform to Readwise

This script scrapes Shortform for highlights and sends them to Readwise. Accounts with both Shortform and Readwise are required.

Usage

For more detailed instructions, check out my blog post here.

Enter the required data in variables.py.

authToken is the Authorization token that you use for Shortform. Shortform unfortunately doesn't expose this, but you can find out yours by opening up DevTools in Chrome or Firefox and navigating to, for example, your highlights page. In the DevTools Network tab, look for the request with the name ?sort=date and click on it. In the Request Headers panel, you'll see a header Authorization, with the value Basic <your token>. Copy everything after Basic and paste it into variables.py. (Note: There shouldn't be any spaces in the token.)

readwiseToken is your API token for Readwise, which you can get here.

Clone or download this repo, cd into it, and run the main script: python3 gethighlights.py .

You should be able to see your highlights appear in your Readwise library.

To run this script automatically, you can use crontab or similar.

shortform-to-readwise's Issues

Authentication Issue?

Not sure if anyone else is having this issue, but it seems the authentication method may not be working the same way it was at the time this was released??? While I can get the authToken, it doesn't seem to allow for authentication using that method. I've tried in Postman and can't get a valid response. I'm assuming the call is similar to this:

https://www.shortform.com/api/highlights/?sort=date&Basic =XXXXXXXXXXXX

I am on the 5 day trial ... wonder if that has anything to do with not allowing the API to authenticate in this way????

Any thoughts?