Quick Firefox -> del.icio.us hack
I don’t know if this has been done before - it’s so simple that it probably has - but I’m going to post it anyway.
I’ve been looking for a quick and easy solution to allow me to see a list of my del.icio.us tags in my Firefox window. I tag items in del.icio.us using Rojolicious or within Rojo with some frequency, but I try to keep a lid on my del.icio.us taglist and not have it grow to mondo-huge proportions because I like to be able to find my stuff. I’d also like to use del.icio.us as my master tag list. Doing either of those things becomes a little more difficult when I’m tagging something outside of the del.icio.us interface, where I don’t have the advantage of the dynamic list of my tags.
While I’ve been pondering doing something like the Mouseover DOM Inspector (MODI) bookmarklet or a similar Greasemonkey script, or even making my first foray into the XUL world and building an extension to do this, but this morning I decided that I wanted at least a simple stop-gap and started hunting around. None of the Firefox extensions seemed to offer what I was looking for, and my suite of tagging tools is sufficient for right now so I didn’t want to add any tagging tools to the mix anyway.
Here’s what I came up with. I browsed to the del.icio.us api for the list of my tags (in my case, http://del.icio.us/api/tags/get?kinrowan). I then used my multi-tagging bookmarklet to tag that page with the del.icio.us tag “tags“. Then I navigated to that page and added a LiveBookmark in Firefox and dragged it to the top of my bookmarks list. Now when I want to see what tags I’m currently using in del.icio.us, I open my bookmark sidebar and have an expandable list of the current state of my tags. This has the added side-benefit of enabling me to click on one of those items in the LiveBookmark folder and navigate to that tag page in del.icio.us.
<Cori pats self on back>
Later… Just remembered. You have to refresh your LiveBookmark when you think there’ll be changes
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June 13th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
Delicious Firefox
For anyone interested in seeing their del.icio.us tags in their Firefox window, check out what Cori hacked together. Haven’t tried it yet, but looks worth a whirl. Cori’s Rojolicious has become a mainstay of my blog-centric online experience (hopeful…
June 21st, 2005 at 5:31 am
Seems Foxylicious (http://dietrich.ganx4.com/foxylicious/) is also a good way to do this. Nice trick though.
June 21st, 2005 at 10:26 am
Yep, Foxylicious offers this functionality, I believe, and I linked to it in the post. However, I wasn’t interested in the additional (and central) functionality of Foxylicious: bookmark syncronization between del.icio.us and Firefox.
I don’t use del.icio.us as a bookmark manager; more as an archive of items of interest that I’ve found and may want to revisit (maybe for some these are the sae function. but not for me). Plus, using Foxylicious to browse my list of tags in a folder heirarchy would be cumbersome; my taglist contains about 50 tags….
July 11th, 2005 at 11:00 am
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