DeliCount - Get del.icio.us Bookmark Counts for Your Website | Geek Software
Calculating Website Bookmarks from del.icio.us
Following a previous discussion on viewing article bookmark counts on del.icio.us, the idea arose to develop an application capable of iterating through all pages of a website.
This application would ascertain the del.icio.us bookmark count for each page, ultimately providing a comprehensive total.
Important Considerations
Calculating this total requires significant processing time, as del.icio.us enforces a mandatory delay between requests.
A delay of 10 seconds was implemented between each request; therefore, analyzing a website with 1000 pages could take close to 3 hours to complete.
Failing to incorporate this delay may result in temporary blocking by del.icio.us.
Total bookmarks for How-To Geek: 9296
How the Application Functions
The process involves several key steps:
- A valid XML Sitemap is required for your website. (Information on sitemap creation can be found here, and a WordPress plugin is available here.)
- The software parses the sitemap, systematically looping through each URL.
For each URL, it requests the corresponding JSON data.
- Each URL, along with its bookmark count, is appended to a textbox, and a running total is displayed.
- The data within the textbox is tab-delimited, enabling easy copying and pasting into spreadsheet applications like Excel or Google Docs for sorting and analysis.
- The .NET framework version 2.0 must be installed on your system for the application to function correctly.
- Temporary blocking by del.icio.us may occur if the request rate is too high; however, access is typically restored after a few hours.
This software is offered without any warranty of functionality.
Should the application prove successful, sharing your total bookmark counts would be greatly appreciated.
Update Information
NOTE: This is version 0.0002, addressing compatibility issues encountered with unified sitemaps.
Download DeliCount version -0.0002