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Tasty!

Update! See here.

If you drag this bookmarklet into your bookmark bar: Tasty?

Then when visiting a page you can click on it to see how many people thought it was interesting enough to bookmark at del.icio.us. You can read their comments and category assignments.

That bounces off my server; so I’ll be keeping an eye you you :-) .

The cgi redirect script is simple. This script is an earlier draft that runs on the command line and opens a url passed as an argument – well on the mac it does.


  #!/bin/bash
  HASH=`echo -n $1 | md5`
  exec open "http://del.icio.us/url/$HASH"

As you can see they just take the MD5 hash of the url. You could avoid the bounce off a 3rd party server by using a bookmarklet along these lines:


   javascript:void(location.href='http://del.icio.us/url/'+hex_md5(location.href))

But you’d have to inline the entire of hex_md5 and that’s a lot of code!

My redirect server comes with no warranty of any kind. Enjoy.

5 Comments

  1. http://negatendo.net/delicious/linkulator.cgi cropped up at the end of April, too.

    Tuesday, July 6, 2004 at 5:43 am | Permalink
  2. Ben Hyde wrote:

    Thanks’ Phil. It looks like his might be more elegant; and possibly it knows something about exceptional cases. For example he escapes the URL before dispatching it. I don’t know if the hash is on the escaped or on the unescaped version. So, I sent him a note.

    Tuesday, July 6, 2004 at 9:05 am | Permalink
  3. joshua wrote:

    Alternatively, http://del.icio.us/url?url=…. will rediret to the md5 version of the same page.

    Friday, July 9, 2004 at 5:06 pm | Permalink
  4. Ben Hyde wrote:

    Thanks Joshua! I’ve updated the bookmarklet.

    Friday, July 9, 2004 at 5:50 pm | Permalink
  5. Tim wrote:

    very useful – thanks

    Monday, October 11, 2004 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

2 Trackbacks/Pingbacks

  1. Sam Ruby on Monday, July 5, 2004 at 8:31 pm

    Tasty
    Cool! I find the del.icio.us feed to be of less than fully useful as it doesn’t have anything that I can identify as a permalink. Now with five lines of code, I can rectify that in my extractor script. Ideally, at some point, people will converge on

  2. Ed Taekema - Road Warrior Collaboration on Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at 6:03 pm

    Cool Furl Bookmarklets: Info and More Like This
    I have found these two bookmarklets to be incredibly useful and offer them here without warranty … I have tested these on IE and hopefully soon on Firefox. The first one is FurlInfo . It looks up the current url in your browser and displays the …

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