Hi Isb, Because of the potential for abuse, we don't provide an API to return all bookmarks from a given user. Users can of course export their own bookmarks, but not the complete set of bookmarks from another user. Sorry.
-n. --- In [email protected], "Isb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am trying to create a del.icio.us dataset for a class project on > data mining. We are taking a user-oriented approach to the data so we > would like to have ALL the bookmarks (urls + tags) for a set of users. > We can get a subset of del.icio.us users from either the "popular" or > "recent" feeds, but it seems it is hard to get all the bookmarks for > each of these users. The RSS/JSON/HTML feeds of a user's page just > include a few recent bookmarks. So is there a way to get the rest of > the bookmarks without scraping the user page? > > Interestingly, I found that there are JSON feeds (but not RSS) for > getting a list of all the tags (with counts) of a user and a list of > the user's network friends. > > Would it be possible for the del.icio.us team to provide a similar > JSON/RSS feed that has ALL bookmarks of a user? If not could you give > us some tips on doing it right? We would really like to avoid the > page-scraping (we don't know if there is any request throttling). > > Obviously, we will make the dataset publically available for research > purposes. > > Thanks > isb > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-delicious/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-delicious/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
