I’m a big fan of the “del.icio.us”:http://del.icio.us/ bookmark service. I started using it primarily because it enables me to keep bookmarks synchronized, but have come to appreciate the ease with which you can categorise your bookmarks into multiple categories, and enables you to look at the bookmarks of other people have linked o the same sites as you, thereby providing you with a vast amount of other links you might be interested in. The one annoyance is that I have to visit the del.icio.us page to access my bookmarks. At a pinch it would be great if they could offer a view of your bookmarks which could sit in the Firefox sidebar (like “blo.gs”:http:/blo.gs), however even better would be a firefox plugin which would load your bookmarks into Firefox itself.
The beginnings of such a plugin may well be found in the new “Bookmarks Synchronizer”:http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=41742. Currently it only supports the import of XBEL format XML, but it should be an easy job to parse and load del.icio.us’s RSS feed of your bookmarks.
magpiebrain 
11 Responses to “A Firefox plugin for del.icio.us?”
Hi, I’m not currently using Firefox, but when I did, I’d been trying out the RSS Reader Panel http://fls.moo.jp/moz/rssreader.htm, which would partially give you what you’re looking for.
FYI – Mac/Safari users can get their del.icio.us bookmarks via Tasty Safari http://netninja.com/files/tastysafari/
cheers
Arg, broke the URL, working out what your comment form would accept, here is the correct location:
http://fls.moo.jp/moz/rssreader.html
Thanks for that Marc – I knew about the rssreader panel and really should of considered using it! I must say that the Tasty Safari plugin makes me wish I had a Mac…
I agree that an extension that integrated adding links, etc would be cool, but I’m not up to XUL or whatever is required to do that. It may be the extension API is overkill for this anyhow.
I’ve written some PHP that pulls in my del.icio.us links and formats them into a nice DHTML menu. Loaded up in the sidebar, it’s pretty cool.
It would be easy enough to add a little “del.icio.us post” form to the same sidebar, maybe someone wants to do this… The code is here.
here’s the code again: http://www.dwelle.org/perleg/delicious_sidebar.php.txt
*Bookmarks in Sidebar* – You can specify firefox to have ANY bookmark automatically load in the sidebar (if are using Tabbrowser Extensions you need to turn off the setting that opens bookmarks in a new tab). All you have to do is go to the Bookmarks menu, click manage bookmarks, and then select the one you want, right click that bookmark and go to properties, at the bottom it says ‘load this bookmark in the Sidebar’ and tick that, there done … it now loads in the sidebar …
*Updating Bookmarks* – If you wanted to, you could create a php script that would write out a bookmarks.html for you, then all you would have to do is write a commandline script (either bash or batch) to either wget (http) or ftp the file down to your system, over-writing your current bookmarks.html file, and it would update the file … You could easily modify Bowen’s php source to do that.
Thats a very good idea actually. I could in fact have MT create a bookmark file from del.icio.us, then change my del.icio.us bookmarklet to ping my MT and get it to rebuild the file and reload the sidebar…
I’m quite proud of my Firefox sidebar One of the coolest things is the text- to- speech bookmarklet — select some text on a webpage, then click TTS! http://www.geocities.com/jonathan_aquino/bookmarks.html
An extension there is. 🙂
http://delicious.mozdev.org/
Integrating this with a ‘last visited’ history view would be perfect; URLs are stored when the user edits the description or the category (or clicks the “save” button).
Would slogger work for you?
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=1048#copy_-_URL_-_annotate
I have not tested it myself but “Use services from
…del.icio.us…Search to publish your findings online. Or roll your
own publishing based on local log files.” sounds promising.
Especially the ‘roll your own’.