DeliciousAPI 1.3

Unofficial Python API for retrieving data from del.icio.us for research

This module provides the following features:

• getting a url’s history with

  • common tags (up to a maximum of 25) including weight (0…5)

  • [NEW] users who bookmarked the url including tags used for such bookmarks and the creation time of the bookmark in YYYY-MM format

• getting a user’s tags including tag counts, i.e. her/his tagging vocabulary

• HTTP proxy support

Note: Only public del.icio.us data will be mined (read below). This means that this API does not (yet) provide means to access your private bookmark data.

The official del.icio.us API does not provide the functionality mentioned above, so this module will query the del.icio.us website directly and extract the required information by parsing the HTML code of the resulting web pages (a kind of poor man’s web mining). The module is able to detect IP throttling, which is employed by del.icio.us to temporarily block abusive HTTP request behavior, and will raise a custom Python error to indicate that. Please be a nice netizen and do not stress the del.icio.us service more than necessary.

It is strongly advised that you read the del.icio.us Terms of Use before using this Python module. In particular, read section 5 ‘Intellectual Property’.

The code is licensed to you under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.

More information about this module can be found at http://www.michael-noll.com/wiki/Del.icio.us_Python_API

Copyright 2006-2007 Michael G. Noll <http://www.michael-noll.com/>