how to download all the tags from delicious, like all the tags shown in: http://delicious.com/tag
A:
If you mean your own tags, then the easiest solution is to use the Export feature on its web site. I guess you can automate this (including authentication) via curl, wget or something similar.
Andrey Vlasovskikh
2009-10-10 09:37:32
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A:
It's not possible to get all tags, you can get all tags for your username (replace the placeholders with your username and password):
curl https://{username}:{password}@api.del.icio.us/v1/tags/get
This returns some XML which (for me) looks something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<tags>
<tag count="42" tag=".Net"/>
<tag count="9" tag="AI"/>
<tag count="1" tag="ASP"/>
<tag count="64" tag="Accessibility"/>
<tag count="15" tag="Admin"/>
<tag count="3" tag="Agile"/>
<tag count="57" tag="Ajax"/>
<tag count="12" tag="Amiga"/>
...
</tags>
Or you can get a list of recommended or suggested tags for a particular URL:
curl https://{username}:{password}@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/suggest?url=http://stackoverflow.com/
This returns XML with two different types of tag, your tags which are recommended plus tags from all users which are popular:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<suggest>
<recommended>Reference</recommended>
<recommended>Development</recommended>
<recommended>Software</recommended>
<recommended>Tips</recommended>
<recommended>Community</recommended>
<recommended>Technology</recommended>
<recommended>HowTo</recommended>
<recommended>Forum</recommended>
<recommended>Web2.0</recommended>
<recommended>Blog</recommended>
<recommended>Learning</recommended>
<recommended>FAQ</recommended>
<popular>programming</popular>
<popular>reference</popular>
<popular>development</popular>
<popular>software</popular>
<popular>tips</popular>
</suggest>
There's a webmonkey article which covers using the Delicious API from PHP.
robertc
2009-10-10 09:53:40