delicious friends
I had the idea to write a script that find out which people you might add to your delicious network, based on the links you have in common. Probably this idea was unconsciously influenced by my co-worker Stefan how had a similar idea for tilllate-users. Unfortunately you don't get the information you need for this out of the del.icio.us api. So I wrote a littel screen-scraper that sucked the information directly from the del.icio.us frontend. Unfortunately I run the first few time into the Yahoo-"you shall not steal"-guard. (Even if I did wait one second between request, seems that for the frontend you have to wait even longer between requests.) This weekend I increased the timeout between requests massively and it did work (but very slow).
The idea is pretty simple:
The idea is pretty simple:
- The script get's your last 100 links
- It does search then all the links that are saved by other person as well
- It does save all person that have saved this link by username
- Afterwards it does callculate how often a username is saved
- It does order the usernames by occurrence
- It does print out the first 100 usernames with information if they are fan of you or in your network