macupdate.com— dead.licious is a tool for verifying that all of your bookmarks in your del.icio.us accounts are still valid and gives you the option of removing those dead links
Oct 19, 2006View in Crawl 4
Forgot to add: 3) Why don't I make something like this for digg. digg (as far as I know) doesn't have a public API that one can use to mess with one's account without logging into digg via a web browser. del.icio.us and Flickr do, which is why you have desktop apps to manage your accounts on those services. I suppose I could do something that would pull all the links from your account and check them all but then you'd still be left with the task of manually removing all of them from your account (instead of say, pressing a button and having the software do it for you).
I'd guess because it couldn't *be* a web app. It would need to be a long-running or scheduled program that loops through all your bookmarks. I've got 7000+ bookmarks - how long do you think that would take to process?A web app tends to be made up of little short-running bits of (hopefully) responsive pages. Some web apps are backed up by queues and long-running processes in the background. That starts to get complex, so why not just run a desktop app?
rnagibsonOct 19, 2006
Is there any financial advantage to making deadlicious available to XP users? Or is the developer working for Mac?
robotsongsOct 19, 2006
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malarkey42Oct 19, 2006
Forgot to add: 3) Why don't I make something like this for digg. digg (as far as I know) doesn't have a public API that one can use to mess with one's account without logging into digg via a web browser. del.icio.us and Flickr do, which is why you have desktop apps to manage your accounts on those services. I suppose I could do something that would pull all the links from your account and check them all but then you'd still be left with the task of manually removing all of them from your account (instead of say, pressing a button and having the software do it for you).
deusxOct 19, 2006
I'd guess because it couldn't *be* a web app. It would need to be a long-running or scheduled program that loops through all your bookmarks. I've got 7000+ bookmarks - how long do you think that would take to process?A web app tends to be made up of little short-running bits of (hopefully) responsive pages. Some web apps are backed up by queues and long-running processes in the background. That starts to get complex, so why not just run a desktop app?
tiedeOct 19, 2006
Hi there,I have made a small Java application some time ago that checks the links in your del.icio.us account. You can see and download it here:<a class="user" href="http://www.tiede.dk:8080/roller/page/kim?entry=del_icio_us_post_checker">http://www.tiede.dk:8080/roller/page/kim?entry=del_icio_us_post_checker</a>
dstrubeOct 19, 2006
Neat. Can you make the source code available?