Del.icio.us Extended API¶ ↑

This Module is an extension to official del.icio.us API. The main purpose here is to provide methods like get popular, fresh, hot and recent links using scraping.

Author:¶ ↑

Thiago Bueno Silva (tbueno@tbueno.com)

License:¶ ↑

Distributes under the same terms as Ruby

USAGE:¶ ↑

d = Delicious::Collector.new
links = d.popular 'ruby'
links.each do |link|  
  puts '------------------------------------------'
  puts "Text: #{link.text}"
  puts "URL: #{link.url}"
  puts "People: #{link.people}"
  puts "Posted By: #{link.posted_by.name}" if link.posted_by.name
  puts "Tags:  #{link.tags * ','}"
end

METHODS¶ ↑

Popular ¶ ↑

Get popular links found at “delicious.com/popular”.

links = d.popular
links.each do |link|  
  puts '------------------------------------------'
  puts "Text: #{link.text}"
  puts "URL: #{link.url}"
  puts "People: #{link.people}"
  puts "Posted By: #{link.posted_by.name}" if link.posted_by.name
  puts "Tags:  #{link.tags * ','}"
end

# This links can also be searched by tags

d.popular 'ruby'

Recent¶ ↑

Links newly added to delicious.

recent_links = d.recent

Fresh¶ ↑

“The freshest bookmarks that are flying like hotcakes on Delicious and beyond.”

fresh_links = d.fresh

Hot List¶ ↑

Popular links right now.

hot_links = d.hot_list

Search¶ ↑

Search links based on a term.

links = d.search 'rails'