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One-click 'silent' del.icio.us boomarking?
Merlin Also | Oct 22 2006
Over a year ago, the lovely and talented Danny O'Brien gave me a fantastic chunk of code. It was the basis for creating a del.icio.us bookmarklet that worked like this:
I had about 20 of these and they were wonderfully useful for blazing through a set of tabs and capturing a bunch of pages I'd want to return to later on (but didn't want to futz around with at the time of pure capture). Important: The best thing about these was that they were "silent" ? by which I mean they just did their work without notification, interaction, or the need for any extra input. Very fast. The code went like this (note variables [="Red"]USERNAME[/] and [="red"]TAG[/]):
At some point these bookmarklets died and I was made sad. Indicating: :( I know next to zero about javascript so I'm not sure what happened -- guessing that at some point the del.icio.us API (or whatever) changed and these little hacks broke. Any helpful developers with del.icio.us able to check out this code and suggest a fix that would work today? Many thanks in advance from the Captain's Table. 8 Comments
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 The one i've been using...Submitted by 31d1 on October 22, 2006 - 2:06pm.
The one i've been using is: which is a modified version of the one John Ressig came up with. I'm not sure how yours worked, but this one i'snt even a bookmarklet. You save it as a bookmark with a keyword of for example 'dp' (or whatever the equivalent is in safari), and then when you type "dp tag1 tag2 tag3' in the url bar it'll post the current page with those tags. Also any text you have selected on the page will be the notes. It has USERNAME and the %s is what gets replaced by tags. It stopped working silently when they changed the api, because it doesn't submit a 'required security token' which is i guess some hidden field in the form. But it still works enough to leave you at the post page, with everything filled in, and ready to click post, albeit with an error message. They said on the mailing list that 'sorry, yeah we broke that kind of thing, and you can use one of the other ways to do stuff'. I don't know javascript enough to have any ideas about improving it, but even severely hobbled it's still the best UI I've found to add a bookmark. It would be really nice if this sort of thing could get working again or there was an official way to do it. » POSTED IN:
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