Wallabag integration

[aykevl]

With Pocket shutting down very soon, I've looked into adding Wallabag support (and possibly other read-it-later services) in Plato with a nice UI. I know there's an article fetcher already, but my goal would be to have a UX as good as the native Kobo one for Pocket. That means, directly archiving/favoriting while reading and from the list of articles, syncing on demand (with a progress indicator), and straightforward login (just server/username/password, no long client ID/secret to enter). And there should be no need to edit configuration files - everything should be done from the UI.

I have a basic proof of concept ready. Login works, and fetching articles works. I would like to finish this and really integrate it in Plato. But before I put a lot of work into that, I want to ask the best way to go about it (and whether something like this would be accepted).

• Ideally I think this would be a separate app, next to the dictionary and calculator. That's similar to how it works in the Kobo UI. Also, for me, reading articles is something which I'd like to keep separate from books. I don't want the two to be mixed up. Having a separate app also makes it easier to use a custom UI for starring/archiving/etc.
• An alternative would be to make the articles a separate library, that can be selected from the home screen. Adding these extra features like starring and download progress indicators might be a bit more complicated, and I think it's harder to discover this feature in the libraries list, but it might fit Plato a bit more.

Anyway, looking forward to what you think.

[upstreamist]

I don't want you to shelve this idea for lack of encouragement, so let me say that I'm definitely interested in seeing something like this implemented. I recently set up Plato to pull Wallabag articles into their own library, but I'd prefer to have it configured as a separate app, for the reasons you've spelled out above.

I also posted a link to this on Mastodon, where it got several positive responses, so I think it's safe to say there's interest among Kobo users beyond just you and I. (Throw in OPDS library access, and I'll just remove KOReader altogether.)

[aykevl]

Thank you! I'll look into it when I can make the time.

[aykevl]

Making some progress!
It downloads articles, but all the important bits are still missing. Such as marking articles as read, starring/unstarring them, downloading only the unread articles, optionally removing them (to take up less space), progress indicators while downloading, and fixing a number of bugs and things in the UI that aren't quite there yet.
And there are a bunch of other things I'd like to add support for, such as syncing highlights and better formatting for the articles (simplifying what's in the articles, making it more like what Pocket on the Kobo has).

...also, the code is a bit of a mess, I need to clean it up before I publish it.

[aykevl]

Pushed my code here: #402

And if you trust a random stranger on the internet (me) and don't want to build this binary yourself, I've attached it here: plato.zip just extract the 'plato' binary and move it to .adds/plato (to replace the existing 'plato' binary).

I'm sure there are lots of bugs, and certainly a bunch of features that are not yet implemented, but it's something.