Import your Delicious Bookmarks to Firefox OR get a XML backup

Have you ever had the need of having your Bookmarks in Delicious.com imported to Firefox so that you can browse through them easily from your address bar? Or do you ever needed an XML backup of all the Bookmarks you saved in Delicious? Safety first! You don't like to lose whole bunch of bookmarks collected for years get lost just because you forgot the password or the site is broken down, right?

The main reason I wanted this is to import the bookmarks into my browser, Mozilla Firefox. So that I can pretty easily search through them by the enhanced address/location bar.

To get a XML backup, use the following command,  

curl --user deliciousName:password -o DeliciousBookmarks.xml -O 'https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all'

(The downloading location is  https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all )
Give your Delicious user name and password at necessary places. ("curl" is the command that is used to download content from a given URL.)

Importing into Firefox is pretty much simple. You don't have to go through command line options. Here's how it is done.
1. Log in to Delicious and go to settings.

2. In it under Bookmarks section you can find Export/Backup Bookmarks. Click on it.
3. On the opened page, make sure you have checked "Include my tags" checkbox. Then Click on "Export".

4. Save the file in a suitable location. (If not prompted to save it, it'll be at your Downloads folder.)
5. Backing up is done. Now to import them to Firefox, go to Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks

6. Go to Import and Backup -> Import HTML on the opened dialogue box.
7. Then the Instructions are easy. Just follow the steps and give the file when asked to.

All done. Good Luck with that! :)

Google Chrome Extension: Delicious Bookmarks

In my leisure time, I've got some time to do an extension for Google Chrome. I've been doing an extension for Firefox, so had some interest doing one for Chrome too. So, I created this extension "Delicious Bookmarks".

Google Chrome started support for extensions just abut 9 months ago for it's developer channel.(Developer Channel is the unstable version of Google Chrome; unstable than Beta version). And in early December 2009, Beta version of Windows release came with extensions enabled. With that Chrome Extension Gallery is opened, a common platform to download and install extensions, like Mozilla Firefox Add-on site. And in late January 2010 Google Chrome removed the beta tag off its extensions and now they are enabled for the stable general version. For Linux, extensions are enabled for it's beta version as of now.

Enough History! Let's talk about the extension I've done. As you may know Delicious is a online social bookmarking site for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. I've been addicted to this very much. If you go through my profile you may see that I've bookmarked more than 200 bookmarks in it. As I moved on to Google Chrome after using Mozilla Firefox some time, I had the need of having a simple extension to quickly and easily save bookmarks. And I'm sure most of the folks who are using Delicious would be loved to have a this kind of extension.

This is a simple, easy to use extension with a user-friendly interface. All the generally needed features such as tagging the bookmarks, writing  down notes, send to twitter etc. are available. So why don't you try it yourself!

Download it at:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/lnapbapmncaacbfijemonkinanfaebhm