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Move your bookmarks from Myweb to Delicious in 3 easy steps

Federico Feroldi — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:52:21 +0000

When I discover delicious it was too late for me since at the time I had too many bookmarks already tagged in Yahoo’s Myweb. But since then I’ve always wanted to move all my bookmarks to delicious but didn’t found how to do it, until now.

Some days ago I found this python script that makes use of myweb and delicious web services to migrate the bookmarks.
Unfortunately the script wasn’t very reliable, it was crashing quite often and, since I have more than 1500 bookmarks, it was quite painful since every time I launched it, it was starting from scratch.

So I decided to build a new script (actually two)… in Ruby.

Step 1 : prerequisites

First of all you must install Ruby and rubygems on your system.

Then you must install rubilicious gem.

Step 2 : export myweb bookmarks

Here’s the first ruby script that you must run:

require 'net/http' require 'uri' require 'rexml/document'


# YOU WANT TO MODIFY THIS

yahoo_id = 'pix'
myweb_appid = 'YahooDemo'

myweb_urlsearch = 'http://search.yahooapis.com/MyWebService/V1/urlSearch'
request_start_idx = 1

request_max = 50
while(true)

  url = myweb_urlsearch + '?' + {

    :appid => myweb_appid,

    :yahooid => yahoo_id,

    :results => request_max,

    :start => request_start_idx

  }.to_a.collect {|kv| kv[0].to_s + '=' + kv[1].to_s}.join('&')
  retries = 3

  while(true)

    $stderr.puts(" - Requesting URLs from [#{request_start_idx}] (#{retries} retries left) -> #{url}\n")
    http_resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
    if(http_resp.code.to_i < 200 || http_resp.code.to_i > 299)

      $stderr.puts(" ! request failed [#{http_resp.code}]\n")

      retries -= 1

      sleep(5) && next if(retries > 0)

      $stderr.puts(" ! too many retries, something is broken!\n")

      exit

    end

    break # exit while loop

  end
  xml_data = http_resp.body
  # extract event information

  doc = REXML::Document.new(xml_data)
  tot_results = doc.root.attributes['totalResultsAvailable'].to_i

  break unless tot_results > 0
  doc.elements.each('ResultSet/Result') do |r|

    puts [

      r.elements['Title'].text,

      r.elements['Summary'].text,

      r.elements['Url'].text,

      r.elements['Tags'].collect() {|e| e.text.to_s}.join(','),

    ].collect {|v| URI.escape(v.to_s) }.join('&') + "\n"
    request_start_idx += 1

  end

end

Copy this code and paste it to a file (like myweb_export.rb). You also want to set the yahoo_id variable with your myweb ID.

Then you can run the script:

ruby myweb_export.rb > data.txt

Step 3 : import bookmarks into delicious

For the final step you’ll need the script below:

require 'rubilicious' require 'uri'


r = Rubilicious.new('USER', 'PASSWORD')

$stdin.each_line do |l| title, description, url, keys = l.split('&').collect { |i| URI.decode(i) } keys = keys.split(',').collect { |k| k.strip.gsub(/\s+/, '-') }.join(' ') puts title + "\n" + url + "\n" + keys + "\n---\n" r.add(url, title, description, keys) sleep(1) end

You want to set the proper values for USER and PASSWORD of your delicious account and copy the code to deli_import.rb.

ruby deli_import.rb < data.txt

The script waits 1 second after each URL since this is required by the delicious API.

Limitations: unfortunately since the Myweb web services only allow the search of public bookmarks, you'll not be able to migrate private bookmarks. You must do this by hand or wait that Yahoo will release a Myweb webservice that supports authentication.

PHP developers jobs: Yahoo! is hiring

Federico Feroldi — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:07:48 +0000

If you’re looking for an exciting job opportunity in the UK, have a look at the many open positions available in Yahoo!
If you’re interested, get in touch with me and I’ll forward your request to the right people.

Or find the job thet’s right for you!

PHPDay 2007 is over

Federico Feroldi — Fri, 18 May 2007 21:15:46 +0000

The PHPDay 2007 is over, I enjoyed talking about Yahoo! technologies to the (not so many) people attending the event.
Below you can find the slides of my talk on PHP at Yahoo:

Many thanks to Fullo for organizing the event!

Breaking news: R3 and StickleBack Yahoo tools Open Sourced

Federico Feroldi — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:38:37 +0000

I just received an awesome news from my manager. Two of the most important Yahoo’s platform tools have been published to the Open Source world for your pleasure:

r3 allows developers of web applications to customize and translate their UI for different languages, markets and uses. It allows developers to modify existing functionality and add new plug-ins via the Stickleback extension engine.
Stickleback is a general purpose plug-in framework. It ships with tools that allow developers to build and extend PHP command-line and gui applications. It forms the basis of ‘r3′, a web app customization and localization engine.

That’s all for now! More infos to come soon!

Come to see my “PHP at Yahoo!” talk at PHP Day 2007

Federico Feroldi — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:53:01 +0000

I’m excited, I will give a talk on the PHP usage at Yahoo at the upcoming PHP Day 2007 on the 18th May in Verona.

The GrUSP (Php Italian users and developers group) is pleased to announce the 4th edition of PHP Day. An event totally dedicated to php language is going to be held on Friday 18 May 2007 in Verona (Italy).

During the meeting there will be talks on the professional use of php language (Enterprise path) and more technical conferences (Developer path).

Announcing Yahoo!’s first external Hack Day in Europe

Federico Feroldi — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:29:43 +0000

Following on from the success of Yahoo!’s internal Hack Days, Iâ€™m delighted to tell you that registration begins today for Yahoo!â€™s first-ever external Hack Day in Europe.

On June 16th and 17th, Londonâ€™s historic Alexandra Palace will experience the buzz of innovation as up to 500 external web developers and new media technologists join together for a fun and free flowing exchange of ideas. The ultimate goal: to create and innovate the next generation of Internet services.

In youâ€™re interested in finding out more or checking out the external registration site, go to http://hackday.org/.