Delicious.com Command-line Interface

Concept

This program lets you locally mirror your delicious links, and quickly search them (with pretty colour-coded results).

Usage:

delicious <search query>
     or
dels <search query> (if you're into the brevity thing)

Installation

gem sources --add http://gemcutter.org
gem install delicious-cli

Configuration

Just run “delicious” with no options and it will prompt you for your login and password and save the settings to ~/.delicious.

Commandline options:

Usage: delicious [options] <search query>

Specific options:

-s, --sync                       Synchronize links
-r, --redownload                 Erase database and redownload all links
-c, --config                     Configure login info (set delicious username/password)
-t, --test-auth                  Test that authentication info works
-d, --debug                      Debug info

Common options:

-v, --version                    Version information
-h, --help                       Show this message

Common Tasks

epi@fizz$ delicious -c

Delicious login info
---------------------------

Username: mydeliciouslogin
Password: mypassword

User: "mydeliciouslogin" | Pass: "mypassword"
Is this correct? [y/N] y

* Checking that login/password works...
  |_ Login successful! Saving config...

Download new links (since last update):

epi@fizz$ delicious -s

* Synchronizing database...
  |_ Retrieving new links... (5 links found)
  |_ Processing links...done!
  |_ Saving database...done!

Clear the database and redownload all links:

epi@fizz$ delicious -r

* Redownloading database...
  |_ Retrieving all links... (3483 links found)
  |_ Processing links...done!
  |_ Saving database...done!