Via Deepaks blog ( http://mndoci.com/blog/ ) I discovered Lijit ( http://www.lijit.com ) which does something pretty much like the Google Co-op / delicious mashup I described in this post, but with more services (eg Flickr, Digg, Youtube etc). I’ve added a Lijit search box to this blog, and I’ll probably use that more often than my home-rolled approach from now on.

All I wanted to do is point Google Co-op at an html page containing all my delicious links ever. The delicious docs helped out here. Using the delicious API interface for html output, I can try to get the page of links I want:

http://del.icio.us/html/pansapiens?count=100000

The count=100000 is an attempt to get delicious to return all my bookmarks … but it doesn’t work and only gives me 100 links. In addition to that limitation, even if I do use this URL with the Google Co-op ‘on-the-fly’ search, I get no results and an error “Yahoo! - 999 Unable to process request at this time — error 999″. That sucks … not sure if it’s a temporary outage, or some other conspiracy at play (like others have already done this and Google Co-op has been hammering delicious ?).

So, I need to find another way to fetch a simple page of all my delicious links with a single URL. There is a way I can get all posts with the delicious API, but it requires authentication over https. My testing suggests that Google Co-Op can’t handle this, using the (probably insecure) URL: https://username:password@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all .

I tested out a few searches by simply pointing Google Co-op to a static page of my delicious links created with the delicious “export/backup” function, and it works nicely, but this solution would generally need to be manually updated (or left up to a curl/cron kludge, which requires a server to run it). Ultimately, I was forced to use the delicious API and the hosted PHP script to create and update the page of links I need to do this.