An important announcement for all Readability API users

This is a message to all Readability API key-holders. Here’s what’s happening:

First, the Readability Reader API, which saves bookmark information for reading later, and which is seldom used, will be shut down at the end of September.

Second, the vastly more popular Readability Parser API, which extracts article content from web pages, will shut down on December 10, 2016.

What if I’m one of the handful of developers using the Readability Reader API to save bookmarks?

If you’re a user of the Readability Reader API, that API will be shut off, along with the end-user bookmarking service, on December 10, 2016. If you’ve made available or built any sort of Read Later functionality to Readability, it will no longer work after that date. We plan to notify all active end users of the Readability service in the coming days as well.

What if I’m one of the tens of thousands of developers using the Readability Parser API to parse web pages?

The service will also be shut down on December 10, 2016. However, we’ve got a great alternative for you: the Mercury Toolkit.

Thank you for relying on Readability.

We welcome your questions at contact+api@readability.com.

The Readability Team