Python script for bulk import of links into inboard. Input is two files, one with urls and one with titles.

pinimport.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# https://github.com/tgray

import urllib, sys, os
import argparse

def importFile(filename):
    filename = os.path.expanduser(filename)
    try:
        f = open(filename)
    except:
        print("file {} does not exist".format(filename))
        sys.exit(1)
    lines = f.readlines()
    # strip white space
    lines = [l.strip() for l in lines]
    # remove empty lines
    lines = filter(None, lines)
    f.close()
    return lines

try:
    f = open(os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], '.pinboard-token'))
    token = f.readline().strip()
    f.close()
except:
    sys.exit(1)

argv = sys.argv

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
    description = 'Import links to pinboard.')

# parser.add_argument('-s', '--star',
#     dest = 'starred', 
#     action = 'store_true', 
#     help = 'Star the links')

parser.add_argument('-s', '--shared',
    dest = 'shared', 
    action = 'store_true', 
    help = 'Make bookmark public')

parser.add_argument('-r', '--to-read',
    dest = 'toread', 
    action = 'store_true', 
    help = 'Mark bookmark to read')

parser.add_argument('-n', '--dry-run',
    dest = 'dryrun', 
    action = 'store_true', 
    help = 'Dry run.')

parser.add_argument('-t', '--tag',
    dest = 'tags', 
    action = 'store', 
    help = 'Tag links with argument')

parser.add_argument('urlfile', type = str, 
    help = 'The file containing the URLS')

parser.add_argument('titlefile', type = str, 
    help = 'The file containing the titles')

args = parser.parse_args()

urls = importFile(args.urlfile)
titles = importFile(args.titlefile)
u = zip(urls, titles)

qtags = ''
qshared = '&shared=no'
qread = '&toread=no'
tags = ['.pinimport-py',]

if args.tags:
    if args.tags.count(',') > 0:
        ntags = args.tags.split(',')
    else:
        ntags = args.tags.split()
    tags.extend(ntags)
    tags = [t.strip() for t in tags]
    jtags = ','.join(tags)
    qtags = '&tags={}'.format(jtags)

if args.shared:
    qshared = '&shared=yes'
if args.toread:
    qread = '&toread=yes'

entries = []
for i in u:
    e = {}
    e['link'] = i[0]
    e['title'] = i[1]
    entries.append(e)

queries = []
for entry in entries:
    query = ('https://api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/add?auth_token=' + token +
        '&url=' + urllib.quote(entry['link']) + '&description=' +
        urllib.quote(entry['title'].encode('utf-8')) + qtags + qshared + qread)
    if not args.dryrun:
        urllib.urlopen(query)
    else:
        print('(dry run)'),
    print("imported '{}'".format(entry['title']))

print("")
print("All bookmarks imported with:")
print("  shared: {}, toread: {}".format(args.shared, args.toread))
print("  tags: {}".format(', '.join(tags)))