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This program aims to help in exporting safari bookmarks to del.icio.us.
To begin: in Safari you will need to export your bookmarks and then upload the resulting html file to safari2delicious.
The program will offer its best guess at the tags you use to categorise the bookmarks in Safari. It uses the folder names, or collections, you use to group bookmarks in Safari.
There is an inspector allowing you to edit the suggested tags before you commit any URL to your del.icio.us account
The bookmark parser does not apply the parent folder name to links contained in nested folders. So you have to inspect the results and associate those tags by 'cutting and pasting'. There is a visual indication of nested folders to help with this. Results are really good if you name collections with a convention. eg. If a folder is called: "Cookery - Suet Puddings, Sweets and Desserts/Cakes", the program will extract the following tags: "cookery suet puddings sweets desserts cakes" or "Cookery SuetPuddings Sweets Desserts Cakes" depending on how you set the preferences.
Your login and password are stored in a php session that is destroyed at the end of the process. No personal data is harvested on this or any other remote sites.
You can set preferences to change the format of the tags: CamelCase, lowercasedcamel, space seperated tags or CAPITALISE.
You can choose to add a tag indicating the the import has come from safari2delicious. This can help you manage the import later from the del.icio.us interface or from cocoalicious. You can easily delete the import and start again.
By default any bookmarked URL that starts with "feed://" will be assigned the tags: feed and rssfeed. This will be user configurable in future versions. You can delete them in the preview prior to sending or when in del.icio.us.
In future versions, opera2delicious and ie2delicious will be included. There will be tools to prefer existing to proposed tags and more verbose results.
Caution needs to be shown with mailto:, ftp://, file:///, localhost, 127.0.0.1 and other kinds of bookmarks you may not want public. Del.icio.us is not compatible with all kinds of URIs. Future revisions will detect these.
Testing has been limited to exports from mac os 10.4.2 (safari 2.01)
BookmarkParser by Lennart Groetzbach.
del.icio.us PHP API by Dietrich Ayala. So, many thanks to them!
Full credit and acknowledgement to the original copyright holders of the source images for the logo mashup: Apple Computers and del.icio.us.
Confidentiality: Your del.icio.us username and password are stored in a cookie for the duration of the working session and then destroyed at the end. No personal data is permanently stored on this system.
This web application is in no way endorsed nor associated with Apple Computers nor del.icio.us.
