I’ve just uploaded a new project on Github called delicious_wp: it’s a small Ruby script that simply fetches the items stored in del.icio.us the previous week and creates a blog post with them. You can set up a small cron job to execute this script every week, which is what I’ve done for this blog :) I know del.icio.us has a similar feature integrated, but it executes daily, instead of weekly, which is what I wanted.
To use it, just clone the repository, copy the config.yaml.sample file as config.yaml and edit its values inside. Run the script and voilà! A new blog post entry with your del.icio.us bookmarks.
The script can also be helpful to those wondering how to use the XML-RPC interface of WordPress from a Ruby script, or how to use the Net::HTTP library to consume a REST API.
def get_delicious_bookmarks
# Connect to delicious and get updates
http = Net::HTTP.new(DELICIOUS_SERVER, DELICIOUS_PORT)
http.use_ssl = true
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(DELICIOUS_DATES_PATH)
req.add_field("User-Agent", DELICIOUS_USER_AGENT)
req.basic_auth username, password
response = http.request(req)
results = response.body
def post_to_wordpress(title, text)
entry = {
:title => title,
:description => text
}
# Connect to Wordpress using the XML-RPC interface
blog = XMLRPC::Client.new(server, path, port)
blog.call("metaWeblog.newPost", blogid, username,
password, entry, true)
Enjoy! As usual, the code is released with a BSD license.