How to find out who has opted in and who hasn't!
So July is when AVOS is planning to take over Delicious, according to their original announcement, and July is nearly here. (HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?) As far as I know, no one ever got together a coordinated effort to back up fandom Delicious accounts that they feared might not get transferred over, so we are in a position where a lot of great data might get lost very soon.
The thing about Delicious is that it's not very social -- people can share their bookmarks, but not much else. You can't leave a comment to say how great someone's bookmarks are, or, more to the point, ask them if they've opted in to the AVOS transfer. So if you're worried about whether a certain account is just going to vanish from Delicious sometime next month, chances are you have no way of contacting the account owner to find out, and you're just living in fear of the worst.
There is a technical solution to this! Paste this URL into your browser, changing the portion to the username of the account you want to check up on:
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/user/summary?user=
This will give you an XML page that looks something like this:
murklins
murklins
http://murklins.dreamwidth.org
1
delicious
If optedIn is set to 1, then they have opted in to the transfer and you can breathe easy. If not... well, maybe you should leave their name in a comment here and I will make a backup of their public bookmarks. Or you could make the backup yourself -- I plan to use kronos999's Java tool to export public bookmarks as XML. I haven't checked that this tool still works (Delicious changes things up all the time without notice, breaking 3rd party tools in the process), so if you have trouble with it, drop kronos999 a line, and also maybe me if kronos999 is too busy to provide an immediate fix.
The thing about Delicious is that it's not very social -- people can share their bookmarks, but not much else. You can't leave a comment to say how great someone's bookmarks are, or, more to the point, ask them if they've opted in to the AVOS transfer. So if you're worried about whether a certain account is just going to vanish from Delicious sometime next month, chances are you have no way of contacting the account owner to find out, and you're just living in fear of the worst.
There is a technical solution to this! Paste this URL into your browser, changing the portion to the username of the account you want to check up on:
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/user/summary?user=
This will give you an XML page that looks something like this:
murklins
murklins
http://murklins.dreamwidth.org
1
delicious
If optedIn is set to 1, then they have opted in to the transfer and you can breathe easy. If not... well, maybe you should leave their name in a comment here and I will make a backup of their public bookmarks. Or you could make the backup yourself -- I plan to use kronos999's Java tool to export public bookmarks as XML. I haven't checked that this tool still works (Delicious changes things up all the time without notice, breaking 3rd party tools in the process), so if you have trouble with it, drop kronos999 a line, and also maybe me if kronos999 is too busy to provide an immediate fix.