Essential Del.icio.us Tools
Do you use del.icio.us? I started using it but after a while I installed my own version with a focus on web tools. For everyday bookmarks, however, I still use Delicious and love it. I didn’t realize at first that there are really cool tools out there that do crazy things with the del.icio.us API but after some research I have put together a list of the essential Delicious tools. Enjoy!
The Official Del.icio.us Tools
Play Tagger - play mp3 files on your website or blog by including a tiny javascript code.
Tagrolls - display your del.icio.us tags on your website.
Network Badges - display details about your del.icio.us network on your website.
Randomizer button - alternate way to discover new bookmarks at del.icio.us.
Json Feeds - load a javascript object that contains your latest bookmarks.
“Save This Page” link - provide your site visitors an easy way to bookmark to del.icio.us.
Del.icio.us Url - Enter a url to see its history on del.icio.us.
Del.icio.us Firefox Extension - Integrates del.icio.us into Firefox.
Firefox Search Plugin - Integrate del.icio.us search directly into Firefox.
Del.icio.us Toobar - toolbar for firefox users.
Linkrolls - display your latest del.icio.us bookmarks on your website.
Buttons for Internet Explorer - Integrate del.icio.us right into Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer Active Channel - An easy way to keep your bookmarks in sync with Internet Explorer.
Mac Del.icio.us Tools
cloud.lic.io.us - A Mac OS X dashboard widget that displays a cloud of your delicious tags.
cocoalicious - A cocoa del.icio.us client for Mac OS X.
Del.icio.us Feed Tools
ar.icio.us - is a PHP script that allow different sorting methods for your del.icio.us RSS feeds.
Audiolicious - is a Windows program that lets you turn any RSS feed into a podcast. It uses text-to-speech to convert the feed’s webpages into MP3 files.
Durl - is an RSS feed for del.icio.us URL queries. Enter a url to retrieve information about people who delicious’ed it.
Del.icio.us Web/Blog Tools
mog.rif.icio.us - is WordPress plugin that displays del.icio.us bookmarks for one user in the sidebar. Organizes by tag, in a dynamic menu and checks once a day for new bookmarks.
Del.icio.us to WordPress - How to automatically post daily links.
Wordpress Delicious Plugins - Collection of Wordpress plugins that add del.icio.us functionality.
Bookmark this! WordPress Plugin - adds a “Bookmark this page on del.icio.us” link to your posts or sidebar.
del.icio.us Smart Tagging Plugin for WordPress - to add this capability to your WordPress blog.
WordPre.cio.us - is a PHP script that will grab the RSS from del.icio.us and add/update the entries in your WordPress blog.
Bookmark this - code to add a “Bookmark This” link on every post, next to the Comments link.
SideBar Related Del.icio.us Links - uses RSS, PHP and Magpie.
The Easiest Way to Publish del.icio.us Links on Your Site - how you can publish your links on your site.
Del.icio.us Browsing Tools
Delancey - presents an alternate view of del.icio.us bookmarks by keeping track of which ones are used most frequently.
browse.delicious - is visual browser that let users explore and browse through a sample data-set of del.icio.us
del.icio.us surf - lets you ‘channelsurf’ del.icio.us tags/users. A random page from the popular page for that tag is loaded into the frame and a link to post the page to del.icio.us is given.
Revealicious - is a set of graphic visualisations for your del.icio.us account that allow you to browse, search and select tags, as well as viewing posts matching them.
del.icio.us direc.tor - is a prototype for an alternative web-based rich UI for del.icio.us. It leverages the XML and XSL services of modern browsers to deliver a responsive interface for managing user accounts with a large number of records.
del.icio.us tag search - look up del.icio.us links that are tagged with one or more subjects.
Del.icio.us Browser Tools
Del.icio.us Opera Buttons - Create custom buttons for Opera.
Mischievous - Browser plugin for Internet Explorer that uses del.icio.us to manage your queue of drag and drop links.
Epilicious - is an extension for the Gnome web browser Epiphany that lets you synchronise your local bookmarks with the bookmarks in a Delicious account.
Safarilicious - exports safari bookmarks to del.icio.us automatically.
VeryDelicious - is a toolbar that allows the user to quickly add and find del.icio.us bookmarks.
del.icio.us one click delete - firefox extension that allows deletion of del.icio.us bookmarks with one click.
del.icio.us post - firefox extension that posts current page or link to del.icio.us
delic123 - is a Firefox toolbar extension that facilitates posting and personal/global searching for del.icio.us
Familiar Taste - is a Greasemonkey extension for the Firefox web browser that checks your set of del.icio.us bookmarks to see if you have the current page marked.
del.icio.us Internet Explorer Context Menu - lets del.icio.us users add a bookmark using their right-click menus.
konqil.icio.us - Konqueror service menu for del.icio.us
Styling del.icio.us - user skin for Firefox (Greasemonkey) and Safari.
Delicious Linkbacks - Add the bookmarklet to your browser, then you can get a look at what del.icio.us users are saying about (or at least how they are tagging) nearly any web page with one click.
dashLicious - Dashboard widget for posting to Del.icio.us. Also optimised for Safari and NetNewsWire users.
delicious2safari - imports your del.icio.us bookmarks into Safari.
Scrumptious - is a Firefox extension for use with del.icio.us, a social bookmark manager. It makes it easy and convenient to add bookmarks with accurate metadata tags to del.icio.us from Firefox.
Search plugin for Mozilla browsers - is a search plugin for del.icio.us that allows you to search your bookmarks.
HuntAndGather - is a firefox extension meant to provide for some nice functionality. It opens tabs corresponding to the latest URLs stored on del.icio.us given the desired tag with several search functions.
delicious firefox plugin - integrates del.icio.us with Firefox.
foxylicious - a Mozilla Firefox extension that syncs your del.icio.us bookmarks into your browser bookmarks.
Other Del.icio.us Tools
Mobilicio.us - Access your del.icio.us or Ma.gnolia (or Wieza) bookmarks from your mobile device
del.icio.us cached++ - uses the MagpieRSS to fetch and cache bookmarks
Tortuga Delicious ActiveX Component - it automates the submission of URLs to del.icio.us
Pasta - is a plain text pasting service for del.icio.us
Extended del.icio.us bookmarklets - to extend del.icio.us functionality.
Thumblicio.us - displays screenshots of sites by tags or most popular sites from del.icio.us.
Expialidocio.us - uses the OpenLaszlo platform and the del.icio.us API to display posting histograms and time-specific tag clouds.
deli.ckoma - provides statistical data gained from del.icio.us like posts per day, number of tags per post etc.
Delicer - del.icio.us client tool to manage your tags and posts effectively.
One-Click Delete - extensions adds a ‘delete’ link to del.icio.us pages.
Scripted Re-Mark- Edits all your bookmarks at once.
SlashLinks - automatically mirrors del.icio.us links and their design and layout can now be fully customized.
Pukka - minimalist posting client to easily post to one or more del.icio.us accounts.
Autoblogger - reads recent del.icio.us bookmarks marked with a specified tag and creates a link to them.
Delicioso - a free “power” submit program for del.icio.us.
Del.icio.us filtered - Seeing a link once should be enough.
Cloudalicious - graph any del.icio.us URL Tag Cloud’s progression over time.
del.icio.us + Gmail - A script which runs once a day, crawls each link and sends an email to a gmail account with the ‘From’ field being the page url, the ‘Subject’ being the tags, and the body being a copy of the page.
del.icio.us Tag Stemmer - Uses Porter stemming to show where you’ve made different del.icio.us tags with the same English word stem. You can use it to help clean up your personal fauxonomy.
Sorting del.icio.us/popular - a bookmarklet that will sort del.icio.us/popular not just by total number of posts, but by the ratio of recent to total posts.
Ridiculous - a simple wrapper for del.icio.us API writing in Ruby.
Delimages - a view of images from del.icio.us.
DeliciousTray - application sits in the Windows system tray and gives quick access to all links and tags posted to your Del.icio.us.
gre.gario.us - is a tool to find people who have bookmarked the same links you have on del.icio.us. The purpose is to attempt to find people who may have similar interests as you do in a more direct way than using tags.
del.icio.us Illogical Interface - del.icio.us bookmark filtering with logical operators on tags
Backup Del.icio.us with Excel - helps to backup your bookmarks in Excel 2003.
Bunnyhug Updater del.icio.us - an application that lets you download all of your del.icio.us bookmarks and save them on your local machine.
Delicious Soup - A tool that reveals your del.icio.us activities.
Lazy Sheep Bookmarklet - auto-tags and auto-describes your bookmarks.
DeliciousSubmit - Batch submit URLs to del.icio.us
Oishii - is kind of a del.icio.us mini-zeitgeist. It polls the del.icio.us front page every 5 minutes, and returns all sites bookmarked by at least 30 people.
Graph del.icio.us subscriptions network - browse the network of users as defined by their inbox subscription lists.
Graph del.icio.us related tags - graphically browse related del.icio.us tags.
Geotagg del.icio.us bookmarks - tag and view bookmarks in Google Earth and do a virtual tour.
Greasemonkey Del.icio.us Director - every time you visit your own del.icio.us page, the Director should auto-load.
Private del.icio.us bookmarklet - URLs saved with this bookmarklet will not appear publicly that you have bookmarked them.
Del.icio.us popular sites - displays the most popular new sites in last 24 / 48 hours and of all time.
Outfoxed - add del.icio.us users (or any other RSS 1.0 sources) to your list of informers.
Technorati and del.icio.us Tags for Blogger - GreaseMonkey script to make it easier to add Technorati Tags to your blog post when editing with Blogger.
descriptious - Adds descriptions to del.icio.us/popular and Populicious feeds
del.icio.us Apple Script - lets you post to del.icio.us from NetNewsWire - from the browser pane, not the subscriptions.
delimport - Index your del.icio.us bookmarks using Spotlight.
DiggLicious - a cool blend of digg.com and del.icio.us.
Doggdot.us - Combines posted links of Digg, slashdot, and del.icio.us.
Find Similar Sites - a mashup of del.icio.us and easyutil.com to find relevant web sites based on people’s tags/bookmarks on del.icio.us.
Integrating Bloglines and del.icio.us - easily post things you read in Bloglines.
Post to del.icio.us from FeedDemon - add del.icio.us as a “BlogThis” tool to post directly from FeedDemon.
Delibar - it will be store all your bookmarks in the system bar so you can easily access at it by select the tag and the link.
extispicious - generates randomly juxtaposed tags, allowing you to draw your own meanings and revelations from the overlapping entrails.
taga.licio.us - is tag filter for del.icio.us. It produces a page with links from selected tags, allows to integrate del.icio.us links for one or more tags into an existing page, limited to a specified “freshness”, and comes with hundreds of options.
avar.icio.us - is yet another del.icio.us posting interface with a dash of Javascript. It looks like the normal posting form, but has a couple of special feature like auto-completion in the tag box and suggestions of related tags you’ve used before.
Rubilicious - Delicious bindings for Ruby.
Delicious Link Checker is a perl script which will retrieve all of the users links and check them, reporting if they are still accessible, or the error code (and slightly more helpful message) if not.
del.icio.us backup - This ruby script dumps all your del.icio.us bookmarks into a sqlite database.
delicious-java - is a Java API for interacting with the del.icio.us social bookmarks service.
introsp.icio.us - The Ruby script analyzes your del.icio.us links to generate a list of your favourite interests.
BookmarksToDelicious - is a standalone Python client for posting bookmarks from a file to the delicious
Gnomolicious is an GNOME - applet that help you post links on the del.icio.us site simply by drag and drop.
Services Delicious is a client for the REST-based web service of del.icio.us. It allows you to select, add and delete your bookmarks from any PHP script. You do not need to worry about the XML that is sent or how to build the REST urls.
foaflicious - is an application for generating a FOAF file from your del.icio.us inbox.
del.icio.us import script - a perl script which will import Netscape bookmarks file into del.icio.us
Automatic filing with del.icio.us - file the current web page in the read_later category in one click.
sid.vicio.us - creates ontologies for tags on del.icio.us
Backing up del.icio.us - A tool for backing up your bookmarks. It helps to preserve your bookmarks for the ultimate day when del.icio.us suddenly dissapears and so do all your bookmarks and favourite urls collected over years.
del.icio.us Categorizer - reconstructs a hierarchic ordering for your del.icio.us links using set theory.
Furl to Delicious - Import your Furl bookmarks to Delicious.
Del.icio.us Auto-Complete - a Greasemonkey extension that adds tag auto-complete capabilities to the traditional del.icio.us posting areas increasing your posting speed.
Trendalicious - is a near real-time view of website popularity trends as reflected by the del.icio.us social bookmarking service.
del.icio.us Most popular Treemap - a treemap of the most popular.
MySQLicious - is a tool for mirroring del.icio.us bookmarks into a MySQL database.
This list was put together thanks to ToolSoup. If you know of any more Del.icio.us Tools then please add them in the comments and post them to ToolSoup.
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DeliciousSafari is another tool you can add to this list. It let’s you access your del.icio.us bookmarks from Safari - similar to the firefox extension. http://delicioussafari.com
I’ve written a del.icio.us tag cleaner: it can detect and merge your duplicate tags automatically. Available at http://delicious.isnotworking.com/
Cool post :)… I really needed something for Konqueror :D.