Exporting MyWeb2 to Delicious
Shortly after the launch of MyWeb2, I decided to take a bite of our own dog food and gave it a try. I imported my bookmarks from delcious and used it for a few months. A bit later, Yahoo bought delicious, and I wanted to switch back.
Only one problem: MyWeb2 didn’t make it easy to do so. There’s an import but no export. Grrrrr. Trapped user data sucks.
Like most Yahoo products, there is a slick REST api however. Now that delicious fixed their import, it’s was just a small matter of Perl glue to put the two together. Hence, MyWeb2 Export.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Your delicious import link needs two slashes to keep it from being interpreted as a relative link.
Cool tool, though!
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:51 am
Thanks Jeremy! Broken link fixed.
May 3rd, 2006 at 2:37 pm
It looks like it only exports the 100 most recent publicly visible bookmarks, right?
May 3rd, 2006 at 2:41 pm
D’oh! I’m going to start owing you serious cash for your QA services. :-) I had left it in debug mode (which limits the queries to Yahoo). It’s now turned off.
May 14th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
great idea, i wanted to try out myweb2 but have backups on delicious, this will work well.
Unfortunately, the code doesn’t seem to be working at the moment, I get an error message “internal server error”.
Any idea what’s wrong?
great great program though, there is very little going in the direction of myweb2 exporting. the only solution that i could come up with
use the myweb2 rss as a live bookmark in firefox
open a new window with all the tabs from the live bookmark
bookmark all of these tabs on the local machine
export bookmarks at html file and import into whereever
again this only grabs your public bookmarks
the only other option i’ve found is the myfoxyweb2 extension, again only your public bookmarks
May 30th, 2006 at 8:14 am
If you give it an invalid user name, you’ll get “internal server error”.