Import del.icio.us Bookmarks Into Firefox 3?

[thesheep]

Managed to install rubygems and the JSON library OK. Note that if you already have a version of gems installed you may need to run the update instead ("sudo gem update --system") and I think you can also install JSON from within gems? ("sudo gem install json"). The standalone install scripts didn't work for me, I think because I already had an earlier version of gems running.

Anyway, it says they're installed, but I get the following error from the script:

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/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/parsers/treeparser.rb:90:in `parse': REXML::ParseException
   from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/document.rb:204:in `build'
   from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/document.rb:42:in `initialize'
   from ./import_delicious_bookmark.rb:63:in `new'
   from ./import_delicious_bookmark.rb:63:in `read_delicious_bookmark'
   from ./import_delicious_bookmark.rb:62:in `open'
   from ./import_delicious_bookmark.rb:62:in `read_delicious_bookmark'
   from ./import_delicious_bookmark.rb:51:in `initialize'
   from ./import_delicious_bookmark.rb:18:in `new'
   from ./import_delicious_bookmark.rb:18:in `import_delicious_bookmark'
   from ./import_delicious_bookmark.rb:212

Any ideas?

BTW: I'm thinking this should be relatively easy to put up on a web server somewhere, maybe with a simple HTML interface to let you upload the 2 files, then download the result (or even with just a login to get the del.icio.us data??). Watanabe - are you happy for other people to re-use your code?

[watanabe]

Thanks auctoris for writing detail steps.

Any ideas?

Sorry, but I don't have any idea for your error message.

are you happy for other people to re-use your code?

sure. You can use it any purpose, and I added public domain licence in the script.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/deed.en

[fansoftech]

Re: the article I noted a few comments ago (http://tinyurl.com/5lvuxl @ fansoftech.com), a couple of commenters made a useful suggestion. One of which being:

"I’ve found that if you export .json from flock and export html from the del.icio.us website and then import both into firefox (.json first) then you’ll have tags and bookmarks!"

[thesheep]

We made a web-based solution to this, allowing you to convert your del.icio.us bookmarks to Firefox 3 without having to run Ruby on your computer. You can just go to http://delicious.e-accent.com/ and use the online tool to merge your del.icio.us bookmarks with your current Firefox bookmarks. We based it on watanabe's script. Let me know if you find it useful.

[arandor]

Awesome! Hopefully the word will get out so people will know this is available.

[arandor]

Attention watanabe and thesheep:

Here's the write-up about your conversion utility on LifeHacker.com.

[J-K]

Hi,

I use Kubuntu 8.04 and get the same errors like thesheep when trying to use import_delicious_bookmark.rb .

The cool online-converter is useless, because it only works with a HTML-file and not with the XML-file I get when using scuttle (a del.icio.us 'clone' with the same API -> http://scuttle.org)

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,
Johannes

[warenhaus]

because it only works with a HTML-file and not with the XML-file I get when using scuttle
Can anyone help me?
Thanks,
Johannes

you might want to use an export tool I wrote for Scuttle. You will find a version of it it the SemanticScuttle-SVN (there currently is no development happening @ Scuttle, but a lot of development @ SemanticScuttle)

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=729862


Not sure if it works for what you want to do., though. (Lass es mich wissen, wenn ja)

I would definitely prefer some 'live' link between an online service like delicious or scuttle and FF3's URL-bar.

[J-K]

Hi warenhaus,

Thanks for the scuttle export function!

I edited the file export_all.php a little bit to working correctly:

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--- api/export_all.orig.php     2008-07-07 17:29:49.000000000 +0200
+++ api/export_all.php  2008-07-07 17:29:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 // - doesn't include the filtered tag as an attribute on the root element (we do)

 // Force HTTP authentication first!
+require_once('httpauth.inc.php');
 require_once('../header.inc.php');

 $bookmarkservice =& ServiceFactory::getServiceInstance('BookmarkService');
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@
     $taglist = '';
     if (count($row['tags']) > 0) {
         foreach($row['tags'] as $tag)
-            $taglist .= convertTag($tag) .' ';
+           $taglist .= $tag .',';
         $taglist = substr($taglist, 0, -1);
     } else {
         $taglist = 'system:unfiled';

The tags have to be separated by commas and a tag could contain spaces, so the convertTag function isn't needed.
(If the tags separated by spaces, FF3 recognizes all tags of one URL as one tag after online conversion & merging with http://delicious.e-accent.com/ ...)


Thanks a lot,

Johannes

[steviex]

Moving this to Firefox Support as Firefox 3 has been released....

[kevbroch]

The ruby script becomes web app: http://delicious.e-accent.com/

I just used it with no problems.

[lencurrie]

Great app, however not working for my mac OS X 10.5.4

I get the error when importing into Firefox : "unable to process the backup file"

Any suggestions? Perhaps I should run through the steps and see if that works.. the webapp doesn't seem to.

[lencurrie]

should also note that I've tried this on a Vista machine as well.. hmm.. any way to edit a JSON file?

[Simon_Rear]

should also note that I've tried this on a Vista machine as well.. hmm.. any way to edit a JSON file?

Lencurrie - I had this problem the cause appeared to be a couple of comma seperators I had inadvertantly seperate tag entries with instead of spaces. Removing any such commas (using delicious to search for them) was the fix. Hope this helps.

[Bogoris]

Hello, I have the same problem as lencurrie, and I checked in my delicious tags and there seem to be no tag with a coma in its name. Any other idea ?

Thank you in advance