Importing Bookmarks into Del.icio.us?

January 13, 2006 7:02 PM

Importing bookmarks into Del.icio.us? Is this feature coming back?

I just switched over to Firefox and have started using del.icio.us as well. I want to load all my many bookmarks from my XP laptop into del.icio.us, but for two weeks at least that feature has been disabled, with a message "Our import feature has been turned off for a few days while we fix some bugs. Sorry!"

Is the import feature coming back? Is there another way to load my bookmarks en masse? I am antsy to get this done as I need to return the laptop to my employer pretty soon.

posted by LarryC to computers & internet (7 comments total)

Was it ever there? I never could do this so del.icio.us always seemed useless.
posted by caddis at 7:18 PM on January 13, 2006

I've used the del.icio.us j-loader to do this. It takes some time, but it just worked.
posted by jessamyn at 7:28 PM on January 13, 2006

I imagine it could be to avert link spam. That said, del.icio.us has had appeared to have some scalability and reliability problems lately, so it could be that.
posted by wackybrit at 8:21 PM on January 13, 2006

If you run out of time, just save a copy of your firefox bookmarks file (bookmarks.html in your Firefox profile folder)

On Windows XP/2000, the path is usually %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters. Just browse to C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ and the rest should be obvious.
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posted by misterbrandt at 8:22 PM on January 13, 2006

Not the OP, but I started using the j-loader, and it is much to long a process if you have as many bookmarks as I do. Is there anything similar that helps with tagging as all; that is, one which at least suggests the "popular tags"?
posted by youarenothere at 9:02 AM on January 14, 2006

The del.icio.us j-loader worked! I don't bookmark a lot, but it imported about 200 bookmarks in three batches of 60-80. Now I have to tag them... Thanks Jessamyn!
posted by LarryC at 6:21 PM on January 14, 2006

I emailed them a while back to ask about the feature and someone got back to me giving me a "we're not sure when this feature will be up, but we are working on it."

Of course, that was before Yahoo bought them :).
posted by allkindsoftime at 6:29 PM on January 15, 2006