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

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

I'm actually at a talk with the inventor of delicious right now and
will be talking to him later in the day... want me to ask him any
questions about browser interaction?

Luis

On 10/25/05, Pete O'Grady <pete ogrady gmail com> wrote:
> 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=http://example.com/
>  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
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