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Del.icio.us to Yojimbo
Sunday May 20th 2007, 2:30 am
By Theron Parlin
Tags: RubyOSA, Yojimbo, bookmarks, del.icio.us, import, ruby

So I’ve been playing around with different information organizers. I recently wrote about Journler, which is a really good free option. However, after trying out the demo for Yojimbo, I decided to switch. One of the reasons I like Yojimbo is that it provides different content types in its posts (e.g. bookmarks, web archives, passwords, serial numbers and notes). As soon as I saw the bookmark option, I immediately started searching for a way to import all my del.icio.us bookmarks into Yojimbo. Unfortunately, I didn’t find anything, so I decided to write an import script.

The first thing I did was install RubyOSA, a gem that provides a bridge from Ruby to the Apple Event Manager. It allows Ruby programs to automate Mac OS X applications in the same way as AppleScript.

Code (shell)
  1. $ sudo gem install rubyosa

After that I went to the following URL to download all of my del.icio.us links into a single XML file:

https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all (you’ll be prompted for your del.icio.us username and password) Once you see your bookmarks, go to file->save and save the file as all.xml. Open the xml file you just created and change the second line from this:

<posts update=”2007-05-19T23:44:07Z” user=”username”>

to

<posts>

Then, just use the following script to import your bookmarks from del.icio.us to Yojimbo:

Code (ruby)
  1. require ‘rubygems’
  2. require ‘rbosa’
  3. require ‘xmlsimple’
  4. myconfig =  XmlSimple.xml_in("all.xml", {})
  5. app = OSA.app(‘Yojimbo’)
  6.  
  7. myconfig.each { |posts|
  8.   posts[1].each { |post|
  9.     bookmark = app.make(OSA::Yojimbo::BookmarkItem, with_contents=nil, with_properties=nil)
  10.     bookmark.name=post[‘description’]
  11.     bookmark.location=post[‘href’]
  12.     bookmark.comments=post[‘extended’]
  13.     tags = post[‘tag’].split(/ /)
  14.     tags.each {|t| app.add_tags(t, bookmark)}
  15.   }
  16. }

It’s possible you’ll need to install XmlSimple to get the script working. For some reason, installing the XmlSimple gem wasn’t enough, I had to download version 1.0.6 and run:

Code (shell)
  1. ruby install.rb config
  2. ruby install.rb setup
  3. ruby install.rb install

Good luck.

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Move over AppleScript, here comes Ruby!
Tuesday April 24th 2007, 8:07 pm
By Theron Parlin
Tags: RubyOSA, applescript, programming, ruby, scripting

rubyosa.jpg

RubyOSA provides a bridge from Ruby to the Apple Event Manager. It allows Ruby programs to automate Mac OS X applications in the same way as AppleScript. This is especially neat because it opens the door for developers to write web applications with Ruby on Rails that could include some integration with the Mac (perhaps pulling song lists from an iTunes library and importing them into a web application’s database). I’m sure there’s plenty of opportunities for integration.

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