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.

Thiago Bueno Silva (tbueno@tbueno.com)

Distributes under the same terms as Ruby

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

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'

Links newly added to delicious.

recent_links = d.recent

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

fresh_links = d.fresh

Popular links right now.

hot_links = d.hot_list

Search links based on a term.

links = d.search 'rails'