A Bookmarklet for Pocket that actually works

27th February 2024

For reasons long forgotten, I switched from being a regular user of Instapaper to a regular user of Pocket maybe 10 years ago.

Pocket is a decent bookmarking service and performs the absolutely minimal requirements I have relatively well. Those being:

  • Let me store great articles, quickly and easily
  • Store them on my phone ready for when I am next without Internet
  • Extract the text and let me read an article without the horror of the modern web, newsletter popups, ads, modal windows, cookie banners et al.

My preferred method of storing articles is to use a bookmarklet in my browser. However, recently the official bookmarklet has stopped working.

There also seems to be a problem with Pocket's bookmarklet in Safari as the browser attempts to keep us private from 3rd party cookies, therefore the bookmarklet displays a "Please login" message whenever you try to store a URL.