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Import del.icio.us bookmarks to Yojimbo

Date: Sep 16, 2006

I just started using Yojimbo, which is a information organizer application for Mac OS X. You can store bookmarks, notes, passwords, serial numbers, document, snippets, whatever bits of info you gather. It seems to be a pretty nice app, simple and easy to use. I wanted to import my del.icio.us bookmarks so I can give the app a bit more testing, since I couldn’t find an importer to do it, I wrote this simple perl script: delicious2yojimbo.pl

How to Import del.icio.us bookmarks to YoJimbo

    Step 1: Download your del.icio.us bookmarks to your desktop. Use this url: https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?user=YOURNAME changing YOURNAME to your del.icio.us username. Login using your del.icio.us username/password. Save the XML file to your desktop called: all.xml

    Step 2: Download delicious2yojimbo.pl Download the script to your desktop.

    Step 3: Run the script Run the script via the command-line using Terminal/X11

    perl ~/Desktop/delicious2yojimbo.pl
Update Yojimbo Using Applescript The key to the script is using AppleScript to tell Yojimbo to create the bookmarks. If you want something a bit nicer, and have a little more talent than me creating Apple apps here’s what you need. I’m a Unix/Web guy and only really know those interfaces. Plus this was only a one-time import so this was sufficient for my needs.
tell application “Yojimbo” make new bookmark item with properties {name:“DESCRIPTION”, location:“HREF”, comments:“TAG”} end tell