Lifestyle

Pocket

13min

The Pocket modules enable you to monitor, add, retrieve, archive, delete, or add to favorites items in your Pocket account.

Get Started with Pocket

Prerequisites

  • A Pocket account

In order to use Pocket with Make, it is necessary to have a Pocket account. If you do not have one, you can create a Pocket account at getpocket.com.

Connect Pocket to Make

To connect your Pocket account to Make follow the general instructions for Connecting to services.

After you click the Continue button, Make will redirect you to the Pocket website where you will be prompted to grant Make access to your account.

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Confirm the dialog by clicking the Allow button.

Triggers

Watch Items

Retrieves item details when an item is created.

Field

Description

Connection

Establish a connection to your Pocket account.

State

Select the state of the items that will be returned.

  • unread: Returns only unread items (default)
  • archive: Returns only archived items
  • all: Returns both, unread and archived items

Favorite

Select the Yes option to return only favorite items.

Tag

Enter the tag name to filter items by tag.

Enter _untagged_ value to return untagged items only.

Domain

Enter the domain to return items from a particular domain.

Limit

Set the maximum number of items Make will return during one execution cycle.



Actions

Add an Item

Adds a new item to the user’s Pocket list.

Field

Description

Connection

Establish a connection to your Pocket account.

URL

Enter the URL of the item you want to save to your list.

Label

Enter the title for the item. This can be included in cases where an item does not have a title, which is typical for image or PDF URLs. If Pocket detects a title from the content of the page, this parameter will be ignored.

Tags

Add the tags you want to apply to the added item.

Archive an Item

Moves an item to the archive.

Field

Description

Connection

Establish a connection to your Pocket account.

Item ID

Enter (map) the ID of the item you want to move from the list to the archive.

Delete an Item

Permanently removes an item from the user's account.

Field

Description

Connection

Establish a connection to your Pocket account.

Item ID

Enter (map) the ID of the item you want to delete.

Mark as Favorite

Marks an item from your list as a favorite.

Field

Description

Connection

Establish a connection to your Pocket account.

Item ID

Enter (map) the ID of the item you want to mark as a favorite.

Modify Item Tags

Allows you to add, replace, or remove item's tags.

Field

Description

Connection

Establish a connection to your Pocket account.

Action

Select the action you want to perform:

  • Add one or more tags to an item
  • Remove one or more tags from an item
  • Replace all of the tags for an item with one or more provided tags
  • Remove all tags from an item

Tag

Enter a comma-delimited list of one or more tags you want to add, remove, or replace by. E.g. Tag1, Tag2, Tag3, etc.

Item ID

Enter the Item ID of the item you want to add tag(s) to, replace tag(s), or remove the tag(s) from.

Re-add an Item to the List

Moves an item from archived items to the user's list.

Field

Description

Connection

Establish a connection to your Pocket account.

Item ID

Enter (map) the ID of the item you want to move from the archive to the list.

Remove From the Favorites

Removes an item from the user's favorites.

Field

Description

Connection

Establish a connection to your Pocket account.

Item ID

Enter (map) the ID of the item you want to remove from favorites.

Searches

Get Items

Lists items by the specified filter settings.

Field

Description

Connection

Establish a connection to your Pocket account.

State

Select the state of the items that will be returned.

  • unread: Returns only unread items (default)
  • archive: Returns only archived items
  • all: Returns both, unread and archived items

Favorite

Select the Yes option to return favorite items only.

Tag

Enter the tag name to filter items by tag.

Enter _untagged_ value to return untagged items only.

Domain

Enter the domain to return items from a particular domain.

Sort

Select whether you want to:

  • return items in order of newest to oldest
  • return items in order of oldest to newest
  • return items in order of title alphabetically
  • return items in order of URL alphabetically

Limit

Set the maximum number of items Make will return during one execution cycle.