Readwise / Reader

Save highlights to Readwise and whole articles to Reader, with their source, title and author.

Needs a Readwise / Reader connection — 

Pick a saved connection in the Credential field, or create one from there. It signs in with a Bearer Token.

Connect Readwise / Reader →

What it does

The node has two parts (Resource), each with one operation:

• Readwise (Highlights) → Save highlights: turns the incoming items into highlights and sends them all to Readwise in one go. Each highlight carries its source page, title and author when known.
• Reader (Articles) → Save document: adds a page to your Reader library. Give it the page’s HTML to save exactly what you captured, or just the URL and let Reader fetch the page.

For highlights, each field you fill applies to every highlight in the run. A field you leave empty is read from each incoming item instead:

Setting	Read from the item when empty
Highlight text	text, highlight, content, selection or quote
Title	title or source_title
Author	author or byline
Source URL	source_url, sourceUrl, url or link
Note, Location, Highlighted at	note, location, highlighted_at or highlightedAt

Items without any highlight text are skipped.

When to use it

• Send the sentence you highlighted on a page to Readwise, linked to the page.
• Save quotes picked out by an AI node from a long article, all at once.
• Save the article you are reading to Reader, with a summary and tags.
• Archive a page’s captured HTML in Reader before it changes or disappears.

To keep plain bookmarks instead, use Raindrop.

Inputs and settings

Für jede Auswahl

Einstellung	Typ	Was es bewirkt
Credential PFLICHT(erforderlich)	Credential	A Readwise access token (readwise.io/access_token). One account-wide token works for both Readwise (highlights) and Reader (articles) — keep it secret.

2 Auswahlmöglichkeiten · wählen Sie Resource and Operation, um die Einstellungen zu sehen

Readwise (Highlights)

Save highlights

Reader (Articles)

Save document

Einstellungen für Readwise (Highlights) · Save highlights

Einstellung	Typ	Was es bewirkt
Highlight text	Text	The highlight text. Leave blank to read text (or highlight/content/selection) from each incoming item.
Title	Text	Source title. Leave blank to read title from each incoming item.
Author	Text	Source author. Leave blank to read author from each incoming item.
Source URL	Text	The page the highlight came from. Leave blank to read source_url/url/link from each incoming item.
Note	Text	An optional note attached to the highlight.
Location	Text	An optional location/position reference (e.g. a page number or offset).
Highlighted at	Text	An optional ISO 8601 timestamp for when the highlight was made.

Einstellungen für Readwise (Highlights) · Save highlights werden angezeigt

Need an operation that isn't listed? — 

Call the Readwise / Reader API yourself with the HTTP Request node, and pick the same connection in its Credential field.

Use HTTP Request →

• Highlighted at is a date and time such as 2026-09-10T14:30:00Z.
• Tags (Reader) is one text with tags separated by commas, for example ai, research, to-read.
• In Save document, Title and Author are only taken from these fields; they are not read from the incoming item. Use an expression such as {{ $input.title }} to pass them on.
• HTML is optional. Fill it with a page’s HTML, for example from Get All HTML, to save what you see, including content behind a login.

Outputs

• Output

• Save highlights returns saved, the number of highlights sent, and results, Readwise’s reply (the books or articles the highlights were filed under).
• Save document returns Reader’s reply, including the new document’s id and its url in Reader.

Dependencies and credentials

• Credential (connection, Bearer Token): required. See Connect Readwise / Reader.

Get your access token at readwise.io/access_token and save it as a Bearer Token credential. The same token works for Readwise and Reader. It gives full access to your Readwise account, so keep it private. See Create a credential.

Example workflow

1. A Context Menu trigger with Menu Contexts Selection adds “Save highlight” to the right-click menu when you highlight text.
2. Get Page Metadata reads the page’s title.
3. Readwise / Reader, Readwise (Highlights) → Save highlights, Highlight text {{ $('Context Menu').selectionText }}, Source URL {{ $('Context Menu').pageUrl }}, Title {{ $input.title }}.

Common issues

• “No highlight text to save — set the Highlight text field or connect items that carry a text/highlight field.” No item had text in the fields listed above. Fill Highlight text, often with an expression, or rename the field with Rename Keys.
• “Readwise API Error: 401 … the access token was rejected”. The token is wrong or was replaced. Copy it again from readwise.io/access_token.
• “Readwise API Error: 429 … rate limited”. Too many requests in a short time. Wait a minute, or add a Wait between runs.
• Highlights show no source or title. Fill Source URL and Title, or make sure the incoming items carry url and title.
• The run is blocked in the web app. Readwise runs through the browser extension. Install the extension and allow Readwise for this workflow when asked, or run the workflow from the extension. See Running extension-only integrations in the web app.

Related nodes

• Get Selected Text: the text you highlighted on a page.
• Raindrop: bookmarks with tags and covers.
• Obsidian: keep highlights in your local notes.
• Get All HTML: capture a page’s HTML for Reader.