Backup all your delicious.com bookmarks by scraping the UI-facing API

backup-delicious.py

import json
import requests
import sys

BASE_URL = 'https://avosapi.delicious.com/api/v1/posts/you/time'


def get_bookmarks(entry, auth):
    if not entry:
        r = requests.get(BASE_URL, auth=auth)
    else:
        r = requests.get('%s?anchorx=%s%s' % (
            BASE_URL, entry['time_created'], entry['md5']), auth=auth)
    data = r.json()
    return data['pkg']


if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) < 3:
        sys.stderr.write('Usage: %s username password\n' % sys.argv[0])
        sys.exit(1)
    auth = (sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])
    bookmarks = []
    page = get_bookmarks(None, auth)
    while True:
        if not page:
            break
        bookmarks.extend(page)
        page = get_bookmarks(page[-1], auth)
    json.dump(bookmarks, sys.stdout)

Hi,
FYI domain "delicious.com" is dead, now use "del.icio.us", but it seems the base API url has changed., any idea ?

thanks
P.