How to get private links? about delicious-exporter

[macchigualt]

Wonderful, you code works like a charm, my bookmarks now are on safe.
Thank you very much.

Greg

[aeldron]

You, sir, are a marvel! :)

[aeldron]

I'm not sure how to get around the private links issue. I can see what the code is doing, iterating through the public pages, grabbing all the links and outputting them to an HTML page. Maybe there is a way to add a log in step so that the private links would also be visible, just like what happens in a browser window?

Unfortunately, I don't know Ruby on Rails well enough to be able to add that. I'm planning to tweak the code a bit to make it output the same XML format Del.icio.us used in the past so that we can re-import it to a new cloud-based service (e.g. pinboard or diigo).

@szafranek I can contribute to your project and push my changes if you want.

[szafranek]

Sorry the late reply, I missed the notifications.

I didn't have private links, so didn't implement it. I'm afraid I won't be able to do it any time soon. I can give you a pointer, though: the script is using curl to scrap pages. curl allows you to login to page that uses cookies (del.icio.us is such a site). So you need to modify the script, so it:

1. logs in and saves the cookie to a file
2. uses that cookie file in the scrapping request, so curl acts as if it's logged in.

You can find out more about it here.

@aeldron: I haven't used Pinboard, but I'm pretty sure it accepts bookmarks.html format. It's format used by Chrome and Firefox. You can always just give it a try.
BTW, the script is just pure Ruby, no Rails knowledge is necessary :).

[szafranek]

I found few hours and added support for logging in and exporting all links, including private ones. Check out the docs for details.