Mihai Parparita from Google has written
a(nother) cool script that allows you to add the bookmarks from del.ico.us to Google Bookmarks. The live version
is available on his site.
Unlike del.icio.us,
Google Bookmarks keeps your favorite web pages private and lets you search their content. You can manage your bookmarks from the site, using Google Toolbar for IE or using some unofficial
Firefox extensions.
Related:
On bookmarksLabels: Google Bookmarks, InOut
del.icio.us allows you to store all your bookmarks privately if you really want to (not that anyone would...)
Enkidu said on April 1, 2007 7:30 PM PDT:
It really does work! I had to type in my delicious password, so I set up a temporary delicious password before running the script. I didn't have to type in my google password. The script seemed to have used the currently logged in google account.
And while I prefer the interface of delicious, searching my own stuff on delicious or even selecting multiple tags is simply unusably slow as of now :(
Only imported the latest 37 bookmarks for me.
Good idea, but it didn't import all my bookmarks.
I think it's a good idea but the implementation didn't work for me either. I've ~1440 links on del.icio.us, the importing succeeded on ~130 links as if there weren't any others. I also tried deleting a few links from the originals, that were imported, but further attemps at importing were met with a message that there weren't any new links to be imported.
Thus, for the time being I used a method that worked - del.ico.us -> settings -> export/backup links -> saved the file on my laptop, opened a browser (IE, but could have been firefox as well) -> Tools (check "toolbar") -> File -> Import/export and chose the same file.
Now all of them were on IE bookmarks from which the Google toolbar import works perfectly.
Chris G. said on November 14, 2007 7:59 AM PDT:
It looks like the script is broken now. Its output only has the form and doesn't get to the point where it starts printing JSON data.
Shouldn't this feature be built into the google bookmarks thing? Import? :)
I haven't been able to get this work either, I'm just seeing the form with the 'Uploading' message.
Somehow this comment got posted to the wrong thread. Odd.
Reposting it here:
While the tagging, bookmarklet and general UI are very polished and I generally like google bookmarks the reason I think people use del.icio.us is BECAUSE it is social.
Also, this post is misleading. Delicious has all kinds of privacy controls.
said on February 9, 2008 4:21 PM PDT:
Hi, could you share with us your javascript code? i tried to look at some google bookmarks api, but i'm not able to find them...
Can you documentation(api) you read?
Thanks
The Python code is available at Mihai Parparita's page. There's no API for Google Bookmarks (just a way to export them as a HTML file and a way to import bookmarks using a POST).
Michael said on August 21, 2008 12:11 AM PDT:
fantastic when used with Firefox...bye bye Delicious
said on August 27, 2008 12:16 AM PDT:
Thank you!
