{"id":204,"date":"2010-12-17T16:19:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T21:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2010-12-17T16:19:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T21:19:54","slug":"automatically-back-up-delicious-bookmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/2010\/12\/17\/automatically-back-up-delicious-bookmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"automatically back up delicious bookmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/12\/16\/is-yahoo-shutting-down-del-icio-us\/\">recent fuss<\/a> over Yahoo potentially shutting down <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/\">delcious<\/a>, I thought it might be wise to automatically back up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/BillHiggins\">my delicious bookmarks<\/a> on a regular basis. Here&#8217;s what I did:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Created a shell script to download delicious bookmark data to my Dropbox folder<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>cat $HOME\/Development\/Scripts\/backup-delicious.sh<\/pre>\n<pre>curl -s https:\/\/BillHiggins:MyPassword@api.del.icio.us\/v1\/posts\/all &gt; $HOME\/Dropbox\/delicious-bookmarks.xml<\/pre>\n<p>This sucks down an XML file of current bookmark data and drops it in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/referrals\/NTIyMDU2MjE5?src=global0\">Dropbox<\/a> folder that is automagically backed up to the Dropbox cloud.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Created a cron job to automatically run said script each week<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>crontab -e<\/pre>\n<pre># backup bookmarks every Friday at 2pm\r\n0 14 * * 5 $HOME\/Development\/Scripts\/backup-delicious.sh<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the recent fuss over Yahoo potentially shutting down delcious, I thought it might be wise to automatically back up my delicious bookmarks on a regular basis. Here&#8217;s what I did: 1. Created a shell script to download delicious bookmark data to my Dropbox folder cat $HOME\/Development\/Scripts\/backup-delicious.sh curl -s https:\/\/BillHiggins:MyPassword@api.del.icio.us\/v1\/posts\/all &gt; $HOME\/Dropbox\/delicious-bookmarks.xml This sucks down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,44,41,45,43],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cron","tag-delicious","tag-dropbox","tag-howto","tag-scripts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}