modification of http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2009/01/how-to-really-import-your-delicious-links-into-tumblr

Delicious-to-tumblr.php

<?php

	error_reporting(1);

	function parseXML() {

		$xmlfile = 'delicious.xml';
		$xml = simplexml_load_file($xmlfile);
		foreach($xml->post as $post) {
			$tags = $post['tag'];
			$tags = explode(' ',$tags);
			foreach($tags as $tag) {
				$tag = trim($tag);
				if(!in_array($tag, $tags)) {
					$tags[$tag]['name'] = $tag;
				}
			}
			$posts[] = array(
				'url' => (string)$post['href'],
				'name' => (string)$post['description'],
				'tags' => $tags,
				'timestamp' => (string)$post['time'],
				'description' => (string)$post['extended']
			);
		}
		
		$posts = array_reverse($posts); 

		foreach($posts as $deliciouspost) {
			echo $deliciouspost[name];
			echo '<br>';
			echo $deliciouspost[url];
			echo '<br>';
			echo $deliciouspost[description];
			echo '<br>';
			$tagstring = '';
			foreach ($deliciouspost[tags] as $individualtag) {
				$tagstring .= ','.$individualtag;	
			}
			$tagstring = trim($tagstring,',');
			echo $tagstring;
			echo '<br>';
			echo $deliciouspost[timestamp];			
			echo '<br>';
			postToTumblr ($deliciouspost[url],$deliciouspost[name],$deliciouspost[description],$tagstring,$deliciouspost[timestamp]);
			echo '<br><br>';
			sleep(1); 
		}
		
	}

	function postToTumblr ($url,$name,$description,$tags,$timestamp) {
	
		// Authorization info
		$tumblr_email    = 'foo@example.com';
		$tumblr_password = 'meinpass';
		$tumblr_group = 'myblog.tumblr.com';
		
		// Data for new record
		$post_type  = 'link';
		$post_generator = 'Delicious';
		$post_url = $url;
		$post_description = $name;
		$post_tags = $tags;
		$post_date = $timestamp;
		$post_extended = $description;
		
		// Prepare POST request
		$request_data = http_build_query(
			array(
				'email'     	=> $tumblr_email,
				'password'  	=> $tumblr_password,
				'type'      	=> $post_type,
				'description'	=> $post_extended,
				'generator' 	=> $post_generator,
				'date'			=> $post_date,
				'url'			=> $post_url,
				'tags'			=> $post_tags,
				'name'			=> $post_description, 
				'group' 		=> $tumblr_group
			)
		);
		
		// Send the POST request (with cURL)
		$c = curl_init('http://www.tumblr.com/api/write');
		curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POST, true);
		curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request_data);
		curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
		$result = curl_exec($c);
		$status = curl_getinfo($c, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
		curl_close($c);
		
		// Check for success
		if ($status == 201) {
			echo "Success! The new post ID is $result.\n";
		} else if ($status == 403) {
			echo 'Bad email or password';
		} else {
			echo "Error: $result\n";
		}
	
	}
	
	parseXML();

?>