Use del.icio.us to automatically suggest topics for bookmarks

[Pete O'Grady <pete ogrady gmail com>]

Following a discussion on IRC this morning about using del.icio.us to
suggest topics for new bookmarks I decided to do some more
investigation.

del.icio.us creates RSS feeds for the majority of its pages. Its pretty clever too... you can do things like:
	User:  	 http://del.icio.us/rss/joe
	Tag:   	 http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/bananas
	Combo: 	 
http://del.icio.us/rss/julian/science
	Fancy:	 http://del.icio.us/rss/alan/graphics+3d
	Popular: http://del.icio.us/rss/popular
	Main:    http://del.icio.us/rss/
	Url:     http://del.icio.us/rss/url?url="">
the bottom one is of most use to us as it produces an RSS feed showing who has bookmarked the url and what tags they used.

Since I had the day off uni today I decided to play with Python and
write a little script that takes a url as a parameter, gets the rss
feed from del.icio.us, parses it, then returns a list of the most
popular tags.

I've put it up on the web for people to play with: http://www.peteogrady.com/code/popular.py

example usage: 
pete scully:~$ python popular.py http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany
gtk%2b
browsers
linux
bookmarks
mozilla
gnome
epiphany
browser

I'm sure that with a bit of work this could be turned into a useful extension?

Let me know what you guys think.

-- 
Pete O'Grady
pete ogrady gmail com
http://www.peteogrady.com