A del.icio.us API python script for co-ordinating multiple accounts

23-June-2006

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If, like us, you have several different del.icio.us accounts which you would like to post to, these scripts might be for you. We've just written a python script which makes it pretty easy to automate workflows between mutually trusted accounts.

We are big fans of del.icio.us here at KnowNet, and maintain our own bookmarking pretty avidly (see for instance my linklog). We're also proselytisers for the 'data outside' approach to managing the different aspects of a project's content-management needs, and we've worked hard to train our project colleagues in the use of social bookmarking systems. This inevitably leads to people having multiple del.icio.us accounts that they have an interest in, which can become awkward.

Sshot-Manage-Delicious

Of course, that's what the del.icio.us API is there for :o) Yesterday we wrote a script (python) which we've started using to copy items with certain tags between mutually trusting accounts. We've run it to create the beginning content for three project accounts so far (pulling this content in from four main accounts in various combinations), and have set up chron jobs to maintain the synching workflow nightly.

Sshot-Del-Bms-Small

The first screenshot shows the simple form used to do a batch copy between accounts (the chron jobs just use the same parameters as arguments in a url). The second screenshot shows a tag cloud displaying tags for a project account which includes many items pulled in using the API script. See EGCRF's del.icio.us bookmarks. We'll be publicising the nookmarks tag clouds for other project sites soon.

Please let us know if you're interested in the script. For historical reasons, it requires Plone and a little product of ours called KNUtilities.


Mike Malloch; 23-June-2006 12:58:08; forum (1) help

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1 Cool!

This is to cool.
This is to cool to hide, is it available to the public?
Devan, 29-May-2009 07:01:44 forum / discussion

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1 Yup! We're always doing 'other' other things - and that context is important.

Ta Graham - this *is* an important issue - at the heart of what makes web2.0 work, and of what needs doing to make PLE / elearning 2.0 work.
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