Delicious Network Meme Tracker

  1. Feed of a Delicious user's network members: http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/networkmembers/{username}
  2. Yahoo! Pipe with CSV output: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=bsMopDoP3hG_cFaz3XBDOQ&_render=csv&username={username}
  3. Venus CSV subscription lists
  4. MeMeme plugin for Venus
  5. ⇒ A meme tracker for my Delicious network! (with an Atom feed)

Have to improve the template from the default, but still - I've needed this for a long time.

Notes: Tried using Google Spreadsheets' ImportFeed instead of Pipes but it only imports the first 20 items. Tried using YQL to scrape the list of network members but Delicious was blocking it (delicious irony).

March 12, 2009

Comments

Sorry for being slow on the up-take, but I'm trying to figure out how this is is better than Delicious' built-in network display function. Is there a benefit to running this outside Delicious?

Posted by: Peter Murray on March 13, 2009 5:01 PM

Peter: Delicious' built-in network doesn't have a meme tracker. Does it?

Posted by: alf on March 13, 2009 5:16 PM

Nice, thanks Justin - I hadn't seen that before.

Posted by: alf on March 15, 2009 1:24 AM

If you use http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/opml/networkmembers/hublicious instead of the /rss/ version you can skip the Yahoo! pipes bit and use Venus' native OPML support like this:

[http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/opml/networkmembers/hublicious]
content_type=opml

This is a good idea though, I like it!

Posted by: Phil Wilson on March 15, 2009 11:56 PM

Thanks Phil, I'd missed that too.

I think the output of the memes section needs improvement so it's not just titles, and I'm not sure if Venus is *really* the right place for this, but it works ok for now.

It might be good to have feeds of Twitter followings in there too, with shortened links converted, a bit like MicroPlaza does.

Posted by: alf on March 16, 2009 12:00 AM

I think Venus is probably fine. The template is very easily hackable to be more like Justin's which looks like pretty decent display of this kind of information.

Also: look, comments! whee! :)

Posted by: Phil Wilson on March 16, 2009 12:43 AM

Maybe Venus is more useful if the feeds are from lots of different sources, but for just the Delicious network use it seems like it might be easier to page through http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/network/hublicious?count=100 and store the items in a database.

Posted by: alf on March 16, 2009 12:47 AM

Instead of using an existing aggregator with meme functionality, it might be easier to retrieve RSS feeds, parse them and store them in a database.

;)

Posted by: Phil Wilson on March 16, 2009 1:44 AM

Just one RSS feed ;-)

Posted by: alf on March 16, 2009 1:47 AM

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