Delicious Python
June 12th, 2005 by Bryan O'Sullivan
Or why I love popular scripting languages, reason number one zillion.
I use Sage with Firefox to keep up with various blogs, and del.icio.us as a URL dumping ground.
It took me approximately five minutes to find a Python interface to del.icio.us and write a script that turns sets of tagged URLs into an OPML file that I can either drop into Sage or post to my blog:
import delicious deli = delicious.DeliciousNOTAPI() blogs = deli.get_posts_by_user('bos', 'blog') print ”' ”' for blog in blogs: blog['description'] = blog['description'].lower() blogs.sort(lambda a, b: cmp(a['description'], b['description'])) for blog in blogs: print ” % (blog['description'], blog.get(’extended’, ”), blog['url']) print ”