How to export Delicious bookmarks for Evernote (June 2016)

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How to export Delicious bookmarks for Evernote (June 2016)

Delicious is going into disrepair, so I needed to find another home for my bookmarks. The transfer to Evernote was causing me headaches (since most things I found online no longer worked) so when I figured it out, I thought I'd document how I got it to work, for posterity.

Goal

Take Delicious bookmarks with tags, and create a new Bookmarks notebook in Evernote (basic/free version) which contains a new note for each old bookmark, with tags intact.

Steps

1. Export bookmarks from Delicious

• I had found a blog post from 2010 saying to export your bookmarks using the old API (by doing curl https://USERNAME:[email protected]/v1/posts/all) but realized that the API isn't working any longer.
• Solution:
  • Log into Delicious > Profile > Export (or this direct link), click Export. This will give you a "bookmark-formatted" HTML file.

2. Convert the Delicious HTML file to an Evernote XML file

• I had found another blog post from 2014 for this, but it did weird stuff creating subfolders for tags that I didn't want. I wanted all notes in a single notebook, no subfolders, each with its correct tags.
• Also, some of my bookmarks exported with empty tags, which crashed Evernote during import, so I fixed that by either using a special new tag (if the bookmark's only tag was empty) or by ignoring it (if it had other tags anyway).
• Solution:
  • Use this modified fiddle instead. Save the resulting XML as a file with a .enex extension.
  • Make sure it doesn't contain any empty attributes like <tag></tag> or otherwise.

3. Import the XML file in Evernote

• In Evernote, do File > Import Notes... and select your .enex file.
• It should create a new Notebook with the name of your file, and put the new bookmarks/notes in there. I renamed the Notebook to "Bookmarks". Then it asks if you want the Notebook to be synched or only local (I chose synched, cuz that's the point, no?).

That's all, folks!

If someone comes up with a solution please ping me. Delicious is driving me nuts and I have more than 2k bookmarks stored over there ...

Damn, ran into the same issue today.

Another possiblity is to write a small (php) web parser script, which gets all your links - it is very easy, if all your links are public, you just have to get all links https://del.icio.us/?page=X

What I can do is manually "save-page-as" after login, then parse the html file from browser, what parser should I use ?

Thanks for this. Pity that Evernote doesn't seem to be able to save the old Delicious descriptions along with the tags.