% python setup.py install

>>> from pydelicious import DeliciousAPI
>>> api = DeliciousAPI('username', 'password', 'encoding')

Overview

Access to the del.icio.us web service API is implemented in pydelicious.py. In addition the script tools/dlcs.py can manage a local collection of bookmarks.

The API class can be used directly:

>>> from pydelicious import DeliciousAPI; from getpass import getpass
>>> pwd = getpass('Pwd:')
Pwd:
>>> a = DeliciousAPI('user', pwd)
>>> # Either succeeds or raises DeliciousError or subclass:
>>> a.posts_add("http://my.com/", "title", extended="description", tags="my tags")
>>> len(a.posts_all()['posts'])
1
>>> a.tags_get() # or: a.request('tags/get')
{'tags': [{'count': '1', 'tag': 'my'}, {'count': '1', 'tag': 'tags'}]}
>>> a.posts_update()
{'update': {'time': (2008, 11, 28, 2, 35, 51, 4, 333, -1)}}
>>> # Either succeeds or raises DeliciousError or subclass:
>>> a.posts_delete("http://my.com/")
>>> len(a.posts_all()['posts'])
0

Or by calling one of the methods on the module. These are functions that wrap common API calls. The signature is 'user', 'passwd' followed by the API method arguments.

• add(usr, passwd, url, title)

• get(usr, passwd, url)

• get_update(usr, passwd)

• get_all(usr, passwd)

• get_tags(usr, passwd)

• delete(usr, passwd, url)

• rename_tag(usr, passwd, old, new)

These are short functions for getrss calls:

• get_popular(tag)

• get_userposts(user)

• get_tagposts(tag)

• get_urlposts(url)

Documentation

For code documentation see doc/pydelicious or doc/dlcs.py. For TODO's, progress reports, etc. see HACKING.

Note that for non-pydelicious related questions there is also a del.icio.us user discussion list at yahoo.

Historical

Originally written by Frank Timmermann and hosted at: <http://deliciouspython.python-hosting.com/> (defunkt).

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[1]	Google Code, pydelicious (http://code.google.com/p/pydelicious/).