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Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

Joe Lazarus — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:19:16 -0000

Britta, spam should be discouraged, but I can see a lot of useful and interesting uses for something like this. In my opinion, del.icio.us is a tool for organizing links. I don't see why those links need to be "hand-selected". See Taggedhype as an example...

http://del.icio.us/taggedhype/

That's an automated del.icio.us account that organizes music from the Hype Machine by tags that describe the music. The person who created that wasn't trying to spam anyone. They were using del.icio.us a link archive with automated tagging and categorization. It's awesome.

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

Britta — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:01:58 -0000

We don't encourage it; Delicious is for personal bookmarks, not blog feeds. The thing we don't want is a person spammily auto-bookmarking a hundred of her own blog posts. A feed of hand-selected links to interesting articles (using their real URLs, not redirected URLs) might be OK.

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

RacerRick — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:01:32 -0000

Feed.Us can do this. I've tried to demo it for you for about a year now. Oh well.

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

dave — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:49:15 -0000

Obviously that's true. If they wanted people to synch up feeds they would have made it easy, not hard.

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

anon — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:41:12 -0000

Hate to say it, but that's not the role of del.icio.us. For me, del.icio.us is all about bookmark synchronization. And bookmark synchronization doesn't involve automatically submitting a slew of content but rather, actively choosing what interests me.

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

Joe Lazarus — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:03:07 -0000

I was looking for a tool like this a few weeks back, but didn't find anything. It would be really useful if someone built a tool that could handle any RSS feed and post the items to a del.icio.us account (including support for tags). It would be similar to TwitterFeed.com, but for del.icio.us instead of Twitter. I don't have the skills to build it myself. I hope someone does.

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

Gary Burge — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:04:22 -0000

See del.icio.us API description of 'Add' command: http://del.icio.us/help/api....

https://api.del.icio.us/v1/...

Add a post to del.icio.us

Arguments
&url (required) - the url of the item.
&description (required) - the description of the item.
&extended (optional) - notes for the item.
&tags (optional) - tags for the item (space delimited).
&dt (optional) - datestamp of the item (format "CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ").
Requires a LITERAL "T" and "Z" like in ISO8601 at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mg... for example: "1984-09-01T14:21:31Z"
&replace=no (optional) - don't replace post if given url has already been posted.
&shared=no (optional) - make the item private

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

BillSeitz — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:55:01 -0000

I'm not sure they'd welcome auto-posting a feed like this anyway.

(Is there anyone left over there to ask?)

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

James Holderness — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:10:53 -0000

If you decide to use the del.icio.us API as some have suggested, take note of the warning in their documentation regarding throttling:

"Please wait AT LEAST ONE SECOND between queries, or you are likely to get automatically throttled."

That could make things a little more complicated.

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

Thomas Swift — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:29:52 -0000

I think your best bet is write a small script make api call on a cron job for this, I don't know about any solutions that are out there for this

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

Thomas Beutel — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:50:36 -0000

At the point that an item is first saved into the NewsJunk Feed you could do a POST to delicious. I'm assuming of course that there is a place in the code where the feed reader says "Aha, a new article, let me save that into my database table"

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

kosso — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:13:37 -0000

cool. I thought you might be generating your rss feeds! :)

Incidentally, what RSS tagging 'mechanism' would you recommend for applying tags to RSS items?

What is the 'standard' way of 'doing' tags, would you say? I have tagging on Phreadz posts and am looking at the best way to implement them in the RSS feeds which it creates (and opml for that matter)

cheers ;)

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

dave — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:03:23 -0000

Interesting. I don't want it so bad that I'm willing to write a script and keep it running to synch up the two. I'm already generating an RSS feed, so it would be easy to hook together that way. Oh well.

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

kosso — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:00:48 -0000

As sullara says, you should be able to push tagged links (from an RSS feed item, for example) quite easily using their API which you can find here http://del.icio.us/help/api...

nothing you (or the OPML Editor app) can't handle ;)

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

jmlangevin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:51:15 -0000

Dunno if this can help you :
http://www.howtogeek.com/ho...

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

spullara — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:48:50 -0000

It is possible to do it using the del.icio.us APIs but I don't know of a service that is already doing this.