Delicious offline poster

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So del.icio.us is nice, but I'm often categorizing and summarizing pages when I'm offline. So I hacked up a script real quick this weekend to post stuff with.

It's written in Perl and depends on libwww-perl and XML::SAX, in addition to the usual Perl stuff. The idea is that you point it at a text file that looks like this:

user: bob
password: b0b15fat

url: http://news.com.com/2102-7345_3-5466159.html?tag=st.util.print
description: Tech giants edgy over Web services CommerceOne patent sale
extended: Bob Glushko patented some fundamental B2B stuff.  Now his patents
  are up for sale, menacing the world.
tags: crime fraud free-software software-patents patent business

url: http://youngpup.net/journal
description: Aaron Boodman's blog "Youngpup"
extended: This guy has done some pretty spectacular extensions to Mozilla.
  Met him at lower-case semantic web dinner.
tags: blog programming

Using the specified username and password, it checks to see which URLs you haven't already bookmarked on del.icio.us, and adds those --- one every ten seconds, just to be extra-careful about not overloading the server.

There seems to be a problem at the moment with canonicalization of URLs:

uhoh: this keeps getting reposted.  wonder what's wrong?
url: http://www.sciencenews.org/scripts/printthis.asp?clip=%2Farticles%2F20050115%2Fclip%5Fbob10%2Easp
description: Palm-Nut Problem: Asian chewing habit linked to oral cancer,
  from Diana Palmer
extended: WHO says regional epidemiological evidence suggests betel
  causes oral cancer; NTU researcher also finds huge rise in oral
  cancer at the same time as betel chewing; 2003 IARC study concludes
  areca carcinogenic.
tags: drugs