Migrating BlinkList bookmarks and Powermarks bookmarks to del.icio.us
Friday, July 11th, 2008It´s done. I was suffering constant problems with BlinkList and I decided to move to del.icio.us. I also decided to rescue the old powermarks 3.5 bookmarks from the oblivion and import them to del.icio.us too.
BlinkList gives you the option of exporting your bookmarks in JSON format via the Options ->Export links. (here is the link)
So grab the json file and save it somewhere in your disk.
Then you have to use the script below to load the bookmars into del.icio.us but first make sure that you have ruby or jruby, rubygems, json-jruby or json-ruby, jruby-openssl and rubilicious installed.
If you use jruby you can install everything in the following way:
jruby -S gem install json-jruby jruby-openssl rubilicious-0.2.0.gem
Then use the following script to load all the bookmarks in the json file to del.icio.us. Just change the filename and username and password to suit your needs.
#!/usr/bin/ruby require "rubygems" require "rubilicious" require "json" require "date" require "time" def getTime(item) dateadd = item['dateadd'] return Time.at(dateadd) unless dateadd == false return Time.now end def getIsPrivate(item) isprivate = item['private'] return "checked"==isprivate end def getTags(item) item['tag'].gsub(' ', '_').gsub(',',' ') end json_string = File.new("blinklist20080710.json").read result = JSON.parse(json_string) r = Rubilicious.new('your_delicious_username','your_delicious_password') i=0 for item in result do i += 1 puts "#{i}: #{item['url']}" #next if i < 3229 r.add(item['url'],item['name'],item['description'], getTags(item), getTime(item), true, getIsPrivate(item)) end puts "ended"
If the script fails in the middle of the import don´t worry. just uncomment the “#next if i < 3229″ and change the 3229 to the last bookmark id that was loaded. Rerun the script and it will skip all bookmarks up to the one you write there.
Loading the old powermark file into del.icio.us is a little more complex. You will need two files:
1) state_pattern.rb (from maurice codik’s blog). I´m copying it here for completeness sake
#!/usr/bin/ruby # Copyright (C) 2006 Maurice Codik - maurice.codik@gmail.com # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and # associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, # including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, # sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is # furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial # portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT # LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. # IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE # SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. # an example: # # class Connection # include StatePattern # state :initial do # you always need a state named initial. this is where you begin. # def connect # puts "connected" # # move to state :connected. all other args to transition_to are passed to the new state's constructor # transition_to :connected, "hello from initial state" # end # def disconnect # puts "not connected yet" # end # end # state :connected do # def initialize(msg) # puts "initialize got msg: #{msg}" # end # def connect # puts "already connected" # end # def disconnect # puts "disconnecting" # transition_to :initial # end # end # def reset # puts "reseting outside a state" # # you can also change the state from outside of the state objects # transition_to :initial # end # end # how's it work: # Each call to state defines a new subclass of Connection that is stored in a hash. # Then, a call to transition_to instantiates one of these subclasses and sets it to the be the active state. # Method calls to Connection are delegated to the active state object via method_missing. module StatePattern class UnknownStateException < Exception end def StatePattern.included(mod) mod.extend StatePattern::ClassMethods end module ClassMethods attr_reader :state_classes def state(state_name, &block) @state_classes ||= {} new_klass = Class.new(self, &block) new_klass.class_eval do alias_method :__old_init, :initialize def initialize(context, *args, &block) @context = context __old_init(*args, &block) end end @state_classes[state_name] = new_klass end end attr_accessor :current_state, :current_state_obj def transition_to(state_name, *args, &block) new_context = @context || self klass = new_context.class.state_classes[state_name] if klass new_context.current_state = state_name new_context.current_state_obj = klass.new(new_context, *args, &block) else raise UnknownStateException, "tried to transition to unknown state, #{state_name}" end end def method_missing(method, *args, &block) unless @current_state_obj transition_to :initial end if @current_state_obj @current_state_obj.send(method, *args, &block) else super end end end
2) The script that parses the powermarks file and load it to del.icio.us
#!/usr/bin/ruby require "rubygems" require "rubilicious" require "json" require "date" require "time" require "state_pattern" class Parser include StatePattern attr_accessor :name, :url,:desc,:tags ,:date , :r state :initial do def parse(line) #puts "initial: #{line}" if line =~ /<a href="(.*)">(.*)<\/a>/ @context.name = $2 @context.url = $1 transition_to :read_keywords end end end state :read_keywords do def parse(line) if line =~ /<!--keywords-->(.*)$/ @context.tags = $1.chomp transition_to :read_keywords2 end end end state :read_keywords2 do def parse(line) #puts "read_keywords2: #{line}" if line =~ /<!--/ if line =~ /^<!--desc-->/ transition_to :read_desc @context.current_state_obj.parse(line) end if line =~ /^<!--mdata/ transition_to :read_metadata @context.current_state_obj.parse(line) end return end @context.tags += " " + line.chomp end end state :read_desc do def parse(line) if line =~ /<!--/ if line =~ /<!--desc-->(.*)/ @context.desc = $1.chomp else #puts "not desc" if line =~ /<!--mdata/ transition_to :read_metadata @context.current_state_obj.parse(line) else raise "don´t know how to parse this in this state #{line}" end return end else @context.desc += " " + line.chomp end end end state :read_metadata do def parse(line) @context.date = $1.hex if line =~ /<!--mdata=\[\w+\]\[([0-9A-F]+)\]\[([0-9A-F]+)\]\[([0-9A-F]+)\]/ @context.date = Time.now.to_i if @context.date < 0 puts "==============================" puts "name: #{@context.name}" puts "url: #{@context.url}" puts "tags: #{@context.tags}" puts "date: #{Time.at(@context.date)}" puts "desc: #{@context.desc}" unless @context.desc.nil? puts "==============================" @context.r.add(@context.url,@context.name,@context.desc, @context.tags, Time.at(@context.date), false, true) @context.name = @context.url = @context.tags = @context.date = @context.desc = nil transition_to :initial end end end r = Rubilicious.new('your_delicious_username','your_password') p = Parser.new p.r = r; i = 0 File.new("pm3520070703.htm").each { |line| puts i; i += 1 #next unless i >2261 p.parse(line); } puts "ended"
(This script will add all the links as private. If you don´t want that behaviour just modify the last parameter in “@context.r.add(@context.url,@context.name,@context.desc, @context.tags, Time.at(@context.date), false, true)” to “false”.)
Again, if the script fails in the middle of the import don´t worry. just uncomment the “#next unless i > 2261″ and change the 2261 to the line number where you want to resume parsing the powermarks file. Rerun the script and it will skip all previous lines.
Hope it helps anybody that it´s trying to escape from Blinklist and/or Powermarks. I successfully imported 3299 blinklist bookmarks and 4000 powermarks bookmarks (a lot of dupes though). By the way, the first script will replace any previous bookmark with the same url and the second script will not. That´s the way I wanted it but of course you can change it. The parameter before the last one in the call to add is the one that control the “replace”. (see add documentation).
