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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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Hi. I've managed to cobble something...Submitted by 31d1 on December 22, 2006 - 11:43am.
Hi. I've managed to cobble something together that works the way the old bookmarklet used to. It's a bit more complicated though, and requires your own web space (localhost works if you're running a web server on your own machine). Also, it only works in Firefox. It's a php script that generates a bookmarklet that works just like the old one did. However, instead of sending the information straight to delicious, the bookmarklet sends its information to the script, and the script uses the del.icio.us API to post the item. The script lives here. Put it in a web accessible directory, fill in the username and password, and visit the script in a browser for instructions. You probably want to use htaccess to protect the script from anyone else, otherwise whoever has the bookmarklet can post to your account. There are some things I don't like about the script. Please play around with it if you feel inclined. If there's any problems with it, let me know and I will try to figure them out, but my hope is if some more knowledgeable people get a hold of it and poke around they can make it more robust than I can. » POSTED IN:
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