MovableBlog: Another Way To Integrate del.icio.us in Movable Type

Nuance 2.0

December 19, 2003

There are already two methods of including del.icio.us links in your Movable Type weblog: this one using the GetXML plugin and this one using Perl and cron. There's no law saying there can't be another one, so after installing the MT-RSS plugin, place this code, with your modifications, somewhere in your index template:

<h4><a href="http://del.icio.us/username">del.ico.us</a> links</h4> <MTRSSFeed file="http://del.icio.us/rss/username"> <ul><MTRSSFeedItems lastn="5"> <li><a href="<$MTRSSFeedItemLink$>"><$MTRSSFeedItemTitle$></a> <MTRSSFeedItemDescriptionExists> - <$MTRSSFeedItemDescription$></MTRSSFeedItemDescriptionExists></li> </MTRSSFeedItems></ul> </MTRSSFeed>

Replace username with either your username. Alternatively, you can replace username with /tag/custom-tag (changing custom-tag to a del.icio.us tag like css), making the RSS URL http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/css. If you want, you can set a cron job to call mt-rebuild.pl to make any links you add to del.icio.us appear on your site, say, within the hour. That way, you wouldn't have to rebuild manually every time you post a few links to del.icio.us.

Posted by Richard at 2:12

Comments

I copied the code into my MainIndex template. Something seems to be wrong as I fail to get a list of items that appear at http://del.icio.us/jcwinnie Suggestions?

Posted by: jcwinnie | December 20, 2003 10:18 AM

One reason for the failure: even though MT Plugin Manager said that the RSSFeed plugin was installed, it was not installed. For some reason on my system, plugins archived as *.tar.gz files fail to install. Which turned out to be a good thing: when I tried manually installing the RSSFeed plugin, it broke MT. (I suspect the culprit is mt-rebuild.pl.) So, while my preference was to your approach, instead I went back to Door #1. I installed GetXML by hand and now have del.icio.us links in my sidebar. Eat 'em up, yum-yum.

Posted by: jcwinnie | December 20, 2003 02:42 PM