How to fix tags for bookmarks imported from delicious into Pinboard?
February 18, 2013 3:17 PM Subscribe
I need to know how to fix tags on links I imported from Delicious into Pinboard.
I decided to switch from Delicious to Pinboard.
On Delicious, many of my saved links had multiple tags. Once I imported the saved links to Pinboard, the tags were separated by underscores rather than commas. This causes the imported links to have a huge number of unique links.
For example, if I had a link in Delicious tagged as amazon,price,important, it imported into Pinboard as amazon_price_important.
Is there a way for me to do a mass find and replace where I replace the underscores with commas? Is there a way to structure my import from Delicious to preserve my current tag structure? Do I just have to go back to Delicious and forget about it all? Any help is much appreciated.
P.S. I saw a link to a Python script, but have no idea how to run Python or do anything with it.
Thanks!
I decided to switch from Delicious to Pinboard.
On Delicious, many of my saved links had multiple tags. Once I imported the saved links to Pinboard, the tags were separated by underscores rather than commas. This causes the imported links to have a huge number of unique links.
For example, if I had a link in Delicious tagged as amazon,price,important, it imported into Pinboard as amazon_price_important.
Is there a way for me to do a mass find and replace where I replace the underscores with commas? Is there a way to structure my import from Delicious to preserve my current tag structure? Do I just have to go back to Delicious and forget about it all? Any help is much appreciated.
P.S. I saw a link to a Python script, but have no idea how to run Python or do anything with it.
Thanks!
Yeah, contact Maciej via Twitter or email. He'll fix it up for you. (my import from Delicious a couple of years ago didn't have this problem, so it is either a change in the Delicious export format, or a bug on the import script)
posted by misterbrandt at 3:46 PM on February 18, 2013
posted by misterbrandt at 3:46 PM on February 18, 2013
Thirding contacting Maciej; you might even just tweet him a link to this question. He tweeted back almost immediately when I asked him about a brief site outage the other day.
posted by limeonaire at 8:42 PM on February 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by limeonaire at 8:42 PM on February 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
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