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Fr0der1c edited this page Mar 26, 2023 · 2 revisions

If you are a new user who never heard of Readform and wants to send FT.com articles to your Readwise Reader, this article is for you.

What can Readform do?

Readform can listen to your myFT RSS feed and send everything you are interested to your Readwise Reader feed section.

What is myFT RSS feed?

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary (or Really Simple Syndication) and it is a great time-saver for people reading lots of news publishers on a daily basis. By using a feed reader (a news aggregator) you can sign up to a myFT RSS feed and get updates on the topics you follow in myFT. To manage this feature, visit the Contact Preferences section of myFT and scroll down until you reach the 'RSS Feeds' section.

How to send articles of interest to Readwise Reader?

  1. First, you need an account of Financial Time with an active subscription.

  2. Follow the topics you are interested in at https://www.ft.com/myft/following. This will decide the topics of articles that will appear in your Reader feed.

  3. In the Contact Preferences settings page, choose to enable the RSS feed and copy your RSS feed link.

  4. Find one machine that will run 24 hours a day. Your computer or a cloud virtual machine should all be fine. Install Docker on that machine if you haven't done that.

  5. Run the single command below. Replace the path part in the bracket with an actual valid path for Readform data.

    docker run --restart=always -d -p 5000:5000\
-v [absolute-path-to-a-local-empty-dir]:/var/app/data fr0der1c/readform:latest

  6. Open http://127.0.0.1:5000 to access Readform web UI.

  7. Check Financial Times in the "Enabled Websites" option.

  8. Fill in Readwise Token. You can get one at https://readwise.io/access_token

  9. If you want to add some articles to your Reader immediately, set "Save first batch to Readwise Reader" to yes. Otherwise, set to No.

  10. In the "Website: Financial Times" section, fill in your username and your RSS feed link you got in step 3.

  11. Click the "Save" button.

  12. The FT.com agent should start running. You should receive an email from FT.com with a one-time login verification code in a moment. Fill in the code to the "Email verification Code" input box, and click the "Save" button again.

  13. Wait for a few minutes. Articles from FT.com should pop up in your Reader feed!

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