The ultimate collection of links for importing bookmarks from firefox into del.icio.us:
Does anyone know of any programs/scripts/sites that can import firefox bookmarks into the del.icio.us bookmark system? There are a few, but none of them are very easy to use:
A website where you can
1) upload your bookmarks.html file
2) Then it will present you with a page of all your bookmarks, with a field underneath each one, so you can MANUALLY add the tags to each bookmark
Problems:
‚Ä¢ This program doesn’t automatically adding tags based on your folders
• It can only do about 40-50 bookmarks at one time
• It takes one second for each bookmark to ping the del.icio.us server
‚Ä¢ If a bookmark in your bookmarks.html file doesn’t have a ADD_DATE field, the program will skip over it. So you have to MANUALLY search for those missing ADD_DATE field and add it yourself. (this affects about one-third of my bookmarks)
Brian Del Vecchio’s del.icio.us import script
Problems:
This thing is a PERL script that I guess you have to upload to your site. I’ve installed a few PERL scripts, and they always feel icky to me. But maybe I might explore this some more. I just wish he would host the script on his site to make it easier. Or at least give step-by-step instructions on how to install it.
A Macintosh client for Delicious
Problems:
Ok, so this is a client for Delicious, not exactly an importer. But maybe it might make entering bookmarks easier. NOT.
The site doesn’t even explain anything about the client or how to use it. All the site has is a changelog.
Jon Dowland’s Mozilla bookmarks.html to del.icio.us
Problems:
This thing is powered by Ruby. Huh? I have to hand it to Jon, he does give specific instructions on how to run his script. Steps 1-4 make sense, but then I get tripped by step five where it says to “Run it.” But I’m a fool and don’t know how to run Ruby, I’m assuming it’s like PERL, but I don’t even think my server supports Ruby.
There’s all the current solutions to import bookmarks from Firefox into Delicious that I could find. Got anything easier to use? If so, please leave ’em in the comments.
You can also do a search on del.icio.us for tags that have both “import” and “delicious” http://del.icio.us/tag/import+delicious I made an RSS feed of this search and if any new resources pop up, I’ll post them here.
Beware the del.icio.us loader (http://www.julian-bez.de/delicious/). It failed to import any of my bookmarks, but was happy to add its own (for something called ‘Jobazaar.’
Jobazaar?
i finally uploaded my bookmarks, but by hand, one by one. it was a good way to revisit my bookmarks to see if i really wanted to keep them bookmarked anymore.
yes, i saw you uploaded a bunch of links from your RSS feed.
Hello 🙂 Assuming you have a linux shell, `which ruby` should tell you if it’s installed. If not, you’re best bet might be to just grab ruby on your desktop.
Here’s another import script: Brian Del Vecchio’s del.icio.us import script: preliminary release Perl (ugh) Won’t import folders as tags. It will just import all Netscape bookmarks with the tag of “.imported” I’m still looking/waiting for the ultimate import script that will bring all of Firefox’s bookmarks over into del.icio.us with folders as tags.
Oh crap, I already linked to Brian’s import script in my original post. oops!
Thanks for the link. Sorry to hear that you found the script frustrating–that’s a common experience, though, with the perl dependencies. Joshua has been saying for about three months now that the Import feature of del.icio.us will be turned on “any day now–as soon as we resolve these stability problems.”