Recently it seems that a few people have been experiencing an error when trying to sync MetroPaper to Read It Later. The reason for this that some Read It Later clients are adding items to lists without the “title” attribute. I’ve got a fix for this currently going through Certification at the AppHub atm but heres a not so fun fix if you can’t live without your reading list for the next few days:

Paste this url into your web browser after changing the username and password fields.

https://readitlaterlist.com/v2/get?username=XXXXXX&password=XXXXXX&apikey=d0gAcUN4d12fvQ668bpfnYsje3T5B253&format=xml&count=500

The browser will give you an error about malformed XML like this:

However if you right click on the page and press “View Page Source” the data is all there and looks something like this:

<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?-->
<status>1</status>
<list>
  <item>
            <item_id>169318204</item_id>
            <title>documentation - How do professional software development teams deal with de</title>
            <url>http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/149419/how-do-professional-software-development-teams-deal-with-design-complexity-in-no</url>
            <time_updated>1339404864</time_updated>
            <time_added>1339404864</time_added>
            <state>0</state>
  </item>
  <item>
            <item_id>154147116</item_id>
            <url>http://t.co/gwj3QwBD</url>
            <time_updated>1334524919</time_updated>
            <time_added>1334486989</time_added>
             <state>1</state>
  </item>

...

If we look at the second Item we realise it’s one of these offending articles causing the sync error. If we mark it as read using the read it later webview then switch to the “read” view and delete it using the little bin icon then MetroPaper will sync correctly.

Again a fix is already under certification along with a redesigned settings section and a few new features and should be live within a week of today.

Recently it seems that a few people have been experiencing an error when trying to sync MetroPaper to Read It Later. The reason for this that some Read It Later...