[request] Import del.icio.us bookmarks

TNT · 2006-04-11 06:58:42

Sounds promising, Andrew!

sthmtc · 2006-04-11 07:16:08

andrew, that sounds great! i’d be interested in beta testing it.

alexandra · 2006-07-31 13:02:29

I like to pick up the issue again. If Andrew is busy (seems so) then may be someone else can help ?
Background is: on TXP Mag we store lots of links on del.icio.us but they restrict the amount of links we can receive. All of a sudden linklists disappear which is annoying. Anybody having a solution or a neat idea how we can get the linklists into txp?

Andrew · 2006-07-31 14:47:07

I actually just started working on this again a few days ago (I had gotten distracted with a major project and, quite honestly, just forgot).

It’s very near completion, however I’m still wrangling with a few issues. For instance, how to import tags; I just don’t think it’s easily achievable. Second, I’m sure there will be inevitable encoding issues for a few users. Also, many users have hundreds, if not thousands, of links stored in del.icio.us. This can make the import process kind of unfriendly or brute-force.

It’ll likely take a bit more testing, but this should at least be at v0.1 within a day or two (for real, this time).

alexandra · 2006-07-31 16:10:43

Andrew, thanks so much for picking this up at all. Please don´t feel under pressure. I survived without such a plugin the past 5 months, i will not die in the next 48 hours ;).

TXP Mag´s links can be found on http://del.icio.us/txp. For me it is not necessary the links get stored in txp under the same tags. If i can help testing. let me know.

Andrew · 2006-07-31 17:33:51

(in the event someone does need tag importing…)

Tags are a flat hierarchy (as opposed to Textpattern’s taxonomical category system), so I would recommend that all tags be imported into a parent category, like ‘Imported’ so as to initially separate them from any exisiting link categories.

Unfortunately, Textpattern still has no power-editing system for categories, so you’ll be manually deleting a ton of categories (tags) if you don’t want or need them. Bringing them into a hierarchical structure (parent/child) and renaming will have to be done manually post-import as well.

I’m not really sure of any way to make tag importing any easier, unless someone has a brilliant idea? I may just launch this initially without tag importing.

Last edited by Andrew (2006-07-31 17:34:38)

Andrew · 2006-08-01 17:17:39

Oh yeah, the #1 reason why tags won’t be implemented in this plugin: currently, Textpattern only allows one category per link. So for now, no tags ;-)

Andrew · 2006-08-01 18:52:22

beta is ready, testers?

alexandra · 2006-08-02 07:24:12

Andrew, i installed the plugin for testin but do not know what i have to do to get the links imported as the helpf files does not say anything about it.

2. question: is it possible to import links from a single tag .. in other words: import links tag by tag?

Andrew · 2006-08-02 14:45:17

The ‘instructions’ is pretty much what is explained through the import (or export) process. Since I anticipate the need to expand this to other bookmarking services, I figured it’d be way too much to include in the help and opted to include it individually for each during import or export. No good?

From a single tag? Let me take a look at it. Might be messy, but you never know.

alexandra · 2006-08-02 15:25:30

Well, i can export del.icio.us bookmarks into a html file .. and then? Or in other words, i do not know what to do once installed the plugin.

Andrew · 2006-08-02 16:00:51

The plugin should appear under the extensions tab in your Textpattern admin interface. Then select the ‘ajw_bookmarks’ tab and choose ‘Import bookmarks from del.icio.us’. After entering your del.icio.us username, the import steps should be displayed for you.

Sorry about having an empty ‘help’ dialogue; I’ll work on filling that out soon.

alexandra · 2006-08-02 17:17:49

Sorry Andrew, but there is not extension tab. I checked that several times. The plugin install went well and it is switched to live. You can get access to TXP Mag if you like.

creativesplash · 2006-08-02 17:49:34

Me too. I cant see ajw_bookmarks under extentions either. I double checked with both txp 4.02 and 4.03.

Andrew · 2006-08-02 18:21:14

Uh, yeah… it’d help it if I actually set it as an admin side plugin. D’oh. Fixed. (details, details ;-)

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