This does not seem to work from behind a firewall, right? Or is there a way to specify proxy settings?

The tools seems to work with English characters set only, so if there are page titles, descriptions or tags in other character sets, they seem to be corrupted.

Running the tool with the --validate option causes the following errors:

Server not found |
'head' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Out of thousands of bookmarks I have, the export attempt with the --validate flag returned only two valid links.

Very nice piece of code indeed. I'm stuck as any other into exporting my thousands bookmarks from Delicious.
Your code grab just public links. How to grab the private ones as well?
I tried to modify your code adding an authentication with my profile but I'm not so keen on coding so it didn't work...

Or conversely do you know how in Delicious massively make all my links public at once?

Any hint?

Thank you.

Greg

Since up until now Delicious seemed to be on deathwatch autopilot, violating the ToS with this exporter was somewhat acceptable, but it appears Delicious will be saved in a read-only state on June 15/2017 and conventional export should work again...

https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious/

The following error occurs after the export is running for a while. Used command:

./export.rb -u <username> -p <password> -o bookmarks.html

./export.rb:74:in url': undefined method []' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from ./export.rb:165:in block (2 levels) in bookmarks_string' from /Users/aron/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0@global/gems/nokogiri-1.7.0.1/lib/nokogiri/xml/node_set.rb:187:in block in each'
from /Users/aron/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0@global/gems/nokogiri-1.7.0.1/lib/nokogiri/xml/node_set.rb:186:in upto' from /Users/aron/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0@global/gems/nokogiri-1.7.0.1/lib/nokogiri/xml/node_set.rb:186:in each'
from ./export.rb:164:in block in bookmarks_string' from ./export.rb:161:in each'
from ./export.rb:161:in bookmarks_string' from ./export.rb:211:in

'

Observed behaviour

Trying to export private bookmarks fails when the password contains 'special' characters, such as dollar signs ($) and ampersands (&).

Wrapping the password in single or double quotes to avoid interpretation by the shell appears to make no difference.

The below examples show how the program

~/dev/delicious-exporter master*
❯ ./export.rb -u yggdrasil -p '$blabla' -o out.html
Password is required.

~/dev/delicious-exporter master*
❯ ./export.rb -u yggdrasil -p '&ablabla' -o out.html
Password is required.

~/dev/delicious-exporter master*
❯ ./export.rb -u yggdrasil -p 'a$bl&abla' -o out.html
Password must be at least 6 characters.

~/dev/delicious-exporter master*
❯ ./export.rb -u yggdrasil -p 'a$blabla' -o out.html
Password must be at least 6 characters.

Expected behaviour

Characters used in the password should have no impact on the functioning of the program. Since Delicious does accept these passwords on their website, it should be possible to use them in the exporter.