Indexing a Large Comm in Delicious

[murklins]

I want to talk about a project I did with the Dreamwidth (DW) comm scans_daily. Probably this will be a lot of tl;dr for everyone who isn't me. But I am a mod of this place! So only catechism can stop me, and she won't, because we made this comm so we could be ridiculous about Delicious in public. This definitely qualifies.

Now scans_daily is a pretty big

Comments

[catechism]

This is a pretty great post, although I feel the section on finding the missing link could be a lot longer.

[murklins]

Are you sure you don't just want the rest of the world to be subjected to those six long paragraphs, the way I subjected you to them? Because I still have them, lovingly preserved on my hard drive.

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I also resolved to next time write better code that doesn't fail silently and invisibly when Delicious rejects a link. >:(((((((( I HATE MYSELF.)

[aliasjack]

We really can't thank you enough for all the work you put into this, it's worked out really great!
Seriously, seriously, thanks. You're the best!

[murklins]

I am super glad everything went as smoothly as it did, and that you ended up with a system that seems to be operating pretty well!

While I was writing up this post, I visited the s_d comm a lot and happened to notice that Delicious' switch to the www.delicious.com subdomain had broken the html page, the greasemonkey script, and the chrome extension for any tags that have forward slashes in them. This is actually a fault with Delicious' redirection code, which I expect they will fix soon, but in the meantime, I have updated everything. The html page should be back to 100% working now, and anyone who wants working versions of the GM and chrome scripts can get them from my greasemonkey page. Also, I learned how to make chrome extensions auto-update, so anyone who gets this new version of the chrome extension will never have to manually update it again, Chrome will just update it automatically anytime I release a new version.

[angelophile]

Seconding aliasjack's thanks on this one. The new tagging system's been working wonderfully and we're extremely grateful.

One thing, though. The Greasemonkey script did appear to be working yesterday when I was running it in Firefox. I've just logged in today to try and catch up with tagging and, after seeing your note here, installed the version of the Greasemonkey script you link above, since it was updated. Since then none of the tags are showing up and I'm just getting a "Sorry, we haven't tagged this page yet!" note on all entries, even when they have been tagged.

[murklins]

Oops, it appears that I added the new www subdomain to the dreamwidth url in the script, not the deliicous url. Should be fixed now!