Create a module which allows for easy import of delicious bookmarks into Drupal [#1000658]

(I can't mentor this, but it seems like a good idea for a task, given delicious's imminent demise.)

Task Description
Delicious is a popular link sharing website. They are closing their doors soon and refugees need a place to back up their bookmark content. Where better than their Drupal site?

The task is to create a module which allows for easy import of delicious bookmarks into Drupal native nodes. It should expose a "bookmark" content type with the necessary destination fields (title, url, notes, tags) and then be able to take a .html export of delicious links from https://secure.delicious.com/settings/bookmarks/export and import them in, with a view to show that things are working properly.

Deliverables
A module that can be used by end users to import their delicious links. Extra bonus points if this is done as an extension to http://drupal.org/project/migrate module, and super extra bonus points if the required configuration is bottled up as a feature.

Resources

(Unfortunately, the latest version of Migrate module seems to be completely devoid of documentation. :\ Documenting it would be a good spin-off task.)

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Comments

Comment #1

zeitkunst commented 18 December 2010 at 22:15

I wrote a short post about how to do this with a custom content type, a view, a python script using Services, and a bookmarklet using Prepopulate. I don't have experience in writing modules, but perhaps someone else can work from this.