Solved: Del.icio.us Imported Items Are All Private

[followup from "My Bookmarks Aren't Quite so Captive"]

The fact that imported bookmarks, at del.icio.us, are automatically marked private was driving me nuts. Ok, it drives me nuts that pretty much all the Social Bookmarking sites have some similar type thing. How social is it when all my junk is private? But since I’m (temporarily?) migrating to del.icio.us, it was really on my nerves. Last thing I want to do is struggle through almost 500 bookmarks changing them to non-private individually.

Ugh.

Fortunately, before I got too stressed out I found a very useful blog post today. In this post, the author includes a nice bit of JavaScript that does the “one by one” thing for you. Not perfect, but certainly better than doing it myself. Be careful with it though. I was using the default of changing one every 10 seconds and got “temporarily banned” several times throughout the evening. Seems they’re touchy about automation type stuff. I suppose if I did it again, I’d kick that delay up to 15 seconds and see if that’s more polite. Oh, and maybe this goes without saying, but change your view in del.icio.us to 100 posts per page before starting.

Know where I found this thing? Deep in the comments of the del.icio.us blog post announcing the new import ability. Damned kind of them, eh?

[My del.icio.us bookmarks]

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