Delicious Automatic Blog Posting Broken - here’s a fix
I love del.icio.us.
I love wordpress.
I love the fact that delicious can automatically send my bookmarks to wordpress.
Unfortunately, ever since the recent delicious redesign, the functionality that enables automatic blog posting of bookmarks has been broken. Last week I notified delicious of this, and promptly received the following response:
Hello Taylor,
Thank you for writing to del.icio.us Customer Care.
I understand that the Delicious blog posting feature is not working
properly for you.Our engineers are aware of this issue and are investigating possible
solutions, but since this is not and “official” feature, we do not have
any specific time frame when this will be fixed.I apologize for any inconvenience. Please let me know if you have any
further questions or concerns.Thank you again for contacting del.icio.us Customer Care.
Regards,
Alessandra
del.icio.us Customer Care Customer Care
While I understand that this may be a complex problem for delicious to solve within their platform, there was nothing to stop me from solving the problem for myself.
Here’s a quick and dirty perl (yeah, I know) script that fetches a delicious user’s recent bookmarks and posts them to a blog. Feel free to use, modify, ignore… whatever.
A few perl modules are required in order to run this. If you’re on ubuntu, the following should take care of any dependencies:
$ sudo apt-get install libfrontier-rpc-perl libxml-simple-perl libdate-manip-perl