Backing up del.icio.us
The del.icio.us rest api makes it easy to backup your del.icio.us links with curl, availailable in most unix environments including cygwin on Microsoft Windows.
curl –user username:password -o myDelicious.xml -O ‘http://del.icio.us/api/posts
all?count=10000′
Restoring links is another matter. There is no similar way to upload a batch of links into del.icio.us.
I’d like to change my del.icio.us name. I’ll eventually script some code to upload the links to a new account one at a time.
Note: You could probably just type http://del.icio.us/api/posts
all?count=10000 in the browser address bar and achieve the same effect.
Technorati Tags: cygwin, del.icio.us, curl, cygwin
November 21st, 2005 at 8:44 am
Or, you could simply use Export (under Settings in del.icio.us) to export your bookmarks. The text on the Export page claims the resulting HTML file is “in a format understandable by most browsers”. Myself, I use the lovely Foxylicious extension in Firefox to automagically sync your del.icio.us bookmarks into your Firefox bookmarks daily.