Delicious Library
I added a filter to import from Delicious Library, an elegant OS X application. It currently cross-checks everything with the Library of Congress, picking up LC call numbers and so forth. This takes time, and I think it's been tripping people up. So I may cut it down to just picking up the information Delicious Library already has.
If you have problems, email me your file. I only had two files to work on—mine and some random guy who posted his music and video game collection—so I may not have caught all the format wrinkles...
If you have problems, email me your file. I only had two files to work on—mine and some random guy who posted his music and video game collection—so I may not have caught all the format wrinkles...
posted by Tim at 3:12 PM
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I'm having a couple problems:
1) My Delicious Library file is too large. I solved this by making a copy of it elsewhere, opening D.L., and removing everything that wasn't a book. This works, but it'd be nice if there was a tool to take the D.L. file and remove everything LibraryThing doesn't care about. I don't really think this is your problem; I'm just brainstorming solutions (:
2) My library file has a <recommendations> element inside each <book> entry, and each of those elements has a list of books I don't own that end up being imported anyway. Do you know an easy way to remove these extraneous books before I send the file to the importer? Alternatively, would it be difficult to change the importer so it ignores these books automagically?
Thanks (: Happy to send you a copy of my library file, if you want it. I'm beren on LibraryThing.com.
The importer is now a universal importer, not a DL-specific one. This is better for most purposes, but perhaps not here. The key is to get only the data or the right field. DL doesn't allow you choose which fields to export, but you can open the file up in Excel first. This seems to work well.
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