I want to port my delicious bookmarks to my website

Question

I started building a app that will automatically download my delicious bookmarks, and save to a database, so they I can view them on my own website in my favoured format.

I am forced to use oAuth, as I have a yahoo id to login to delicious. The problem is I am stuck at the point where oAuth requires a user to manually go and authenticate.

Is there a code/ guidelines available anywhere I can follow? All I want is a way to automatically save my bookmarks to my database.

Any help is appreciated. I can work on java, .net and php. Thanks.

Answer 1

Delicious Provides an API for this already:

https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?

Returns all posts. Please use sparingly. Call the update function to see if you need to fetch this at all.

Arguments

• &tag={TAG}
  • (optional) Filter by this tag.
    
    
• &start={#}
  • (optional) Start returning posts this many results into the set.
    
    
• &results={#}
  • (optional) Return this many results.
    
    
• &fromdt={CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ}
  • (optional) Filter for posts on this date or later
    
    
• &todt={CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ}
  • (optional) Filter for posts on this date or earlier
    
    
• &meta=yes
  • (optional) Include change detection signatures on each item in a 'meta' attribute. Clients wishing to maintain a synchronized local store of bookmarks should retain the value of this attribute - its value will change when any significant field of the bookmark changes.

Example

$ curl https://user:[email protected]/v1/posts/all

<posts tag="" user="user">
  <post href="http://www.weather.com/" description="weather.com"
  hash="6cfedbe75f413c56b6ce79e6fa102aba" tag="weather reference"
  time="2005-11-29T20:30:47Z" />
    ...
  <post href="http://www.nytimes.com/"
  description="The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia"
  extended="requires login" hash="ca1e6357399774951eed4628d69eb84b"
  tag="news media" time="2005-11-29T20:30:05Z" />
</posts>

Answer 2

There are also public and private RSS feeds for bookmarks, so if you can read and parse XML you don't necessarily need to use the API.

Answer 3

Note however that if you registered with Delicious after December, and therefore use your Yahoo account, the above will not work and you'll need to use OAuth.

There are a number of full examples on the Delicious support site, see for example: http://support.delicious.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=3698