Jan 14
I couldn’t find any existing scripts that would auto-post links from del.icio.us to WordPress the way I wanted to:
- Post links as a regular WP post
- Choose to post either the most recent from all links or using a specific tag (I tag all the links I want posted with a special tag)
- Store the last time run so it can be run as many times per day, week, etc. as desired without missing or duplicating links
- Include del.icio.us tags linked back to their del.icio.us categories
Anyway, other WordPress users might find this useful, so here is my hackery. Just set the variables in the script appropriately and run it from a cron job as often as needed (but be reasonable and kind to the del.icio.us servers)…
Looks cool, this is the same kind of implementation I’d been considering working on - glad I don’t have to.
At the risk of being one of those “lazy commenters”, does this (specifically simplexml_load_file()) require PHP 5?
This is pure hackery by a poet so beware
It does need PHP 5 and could use some cleaning up… but it works!
[...] Ruminate - del.icio.us to Wordpress Script (PHP) - almost exactly the implementation style I would have done. [...]
[...] del.icio.us to Wordpress Script (PHP) from Ruminate I must switch to using this! (tags: wordpress del.icio.us) [...]
lol, i’ve just gone and implemented the exact same thing as a Windows console app:
http://workblog.jonrowett.com/index.php/2006/07/25/automatically-blogging-delicious-links-filtered-by-tag/
I have now been using WordPress and del.icio.us for long enough to have the vaguest understanding of what the hell you’re talking about here: enough to get that this would be ridiculously wonderful and useful, but not enough to actually implement it in a meaningful way (yet).
Alas, I am a WordPress adolescent (if that).
In any case, I’ll save the link to your post in my bookmarks (unorganized as they are) and hope I remember to return to the task later.
here’s another script to do the same job (this time using Ruby):
http://workblog.jonrowett.com/index.php/2007/05/09/linkblogging-from-ruby-deliciposterrb/
Is this still available? The link appears to be dead…
The link is working again… it fell victim to a server move. It needs some tweaking, though it still works. It would be a LOT easier if I could get XML-RPC posting working from the PHP script, but it was causing a lot of problems that no on the hackers list or the support forums was able/willing to help with.