A fast and free Safari “plugin” for delicious.com
May 2, 2009
Having changed over from Firefox to Safari recently, I sorely missed a free and fast delicious.com plugin. Then I spotted a new feature of WebKit, Safari’s open-source underpinnings: HTML5 offline database storage. This allows Safari to have a local copy of all your public delicious bookmarks, which are superfast to search too.
If you want to try it out visit http://lenni.info/tools/overdrive/.
Well, the title is a little misleading. It isn’t really a plugin; it is a little web app that makes use of advanced browser features. Initially, this site will only download the last 100 bookmarks but over time all of your bookmarks will be downloaded – just leave the window open for a few minutes. To search your bookmarks, just enter your search term into the search box at the top.
I have placed an intentional restriction on the application. You can’t download your private bookmarks since that would mean you’d have to enter your Yahoo password into the site, which should make you nervous.
If you notice any quirks, send me an email or post a comment here.
06/07/2009:
I have made two updates to the app: Firstly, you can now search for two or more search terms, ie “banking online” will now search for bookmarks that match “online” and “banking”. Secondly, the annoying behaviour of the bookmarks appearing at the bottom of the list during the download is gone too. Use Shift+Reload in order to clear your cache and to get the newest version of the app.
I also fixed a little bug where sometimes a wrong tag list was being downloaded. If you have the feeling that some of your bookmarks are missing, please reset the app.
Seems to run into server errors populating for username “gerwitz”
Username gerwitz doesn’t seem to have any bookmarks: http://delicious.com/gerwitz
looks promising…
does the search feature look into titles or the tags ?
Ha! I’m an idiot and in my reliance on 1Password forgot I still have an old username on delicious. *blush*
Thanks, it works for my real username, and I’m looking forward to the evolution of this app as a tool and as an example.
@spam.wax: It searches both and works a little bit like Firefox’s Awesome Bar – you only need to have rough idea of what the name or tag was.
oh i see. the reason i couldn’t find my links was that I was putting two or more tags hoping to narrow down the search.
single tag searching works.
Actually, good point. I think I’m going to add that functionality soon.
Sort of curious- what does it actually search on? I enter very strange words that really shouldn’t match too much, if anything (fungus, for example), and I get, immediately, a blank screen, then a bunch of potentially related items, but that have nothing to do with ‘fungus’ (in this case, a bunch of electronics hardware/parts suppliers + a bunch of other stuff)
Also- it seems to sort of work OK on the iPhone as well. Might be nice to iPhone-customize it a little bit, assuming you have access.
Very clever and nice. I look forward to playing with it a bit.
Actually, I think I see what’s happening. I’ve got just-shy-of 4,000 bookmarks and it’s still loading all of them in.
After an hour or so we’re still loading… it’s used about 1MB of the database space, and there are a bunch of redundancies – makes me wonder if it’s loading them ‘by tag’ and not grabbing the individual bookmarks.
flip, you are right. Delicious doesn’t allow you to download all bookmarks at once (at least not the JSON feeds I’m using) – you can only fetch the latest 100.
I get around that by downloading a complete list of your tags. Delicious allows you to get all bookmarks for a specific tag and so I got through all the tags one by one and download the bookmarks for that. Obviously the tags with more bookmarks are downloaded first.
If you wanted to get all bookmarks you would have to enter your password. Would you be happy to enter your Yahoo! password to an unknown site?
Any chance you’d host a version for pinboard?
Does it have an API? Should be pretty easy to adapt if it has.
Can you show tags or tag bundles? I would use it then.
Hi Ian, I’ll try to update it over the holidays.