Del.icio.us Plugin Possibly Broken

July 3, 2005 by chris | 8 comments

Well, it looks like the boys and girls at Del.icio.us may have made some changes to their RSS feeds that break my plugin.

So I’ve taken it offline for awhile, and I’ll figure out whats wrong with it when I’ve got some more free time. You’ve been warned.

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  1. HongPong’s avatar

    HongPong on July 6, 2005 at 3:08 am

    It seems to still be working. I actually added in a little thing to display the tags and it works really well. I connected it to Ultimate Tag Warrior, using tag URLs to get my own and the general del.icio.us bookmarks for any given tag. Check it out http://wp.hongpong.com/tag/iraq . Despite the snags, cheers to a sweet plugin.

  2. cb’s avatar

    cb on July 27, 2005 at 9:08 pm

    cool plugin! i don’t know what caused you to believe it’s broken (or may be “fixed” i can’t find a more recent post on this topic) but how often does the plugin download from del.icio.us?

    before my recent migration to wordpress i spent quite a bit of time hacking together a del.icio.us feed hack in perl. during my research i read, “please do not poll any single RSS feed more often than every 30 minutes. RSS feeds are not updated more than twice an hour, and you will receive an error if you try to crawl more frequently.”

    could this be a part of it? regardless, thanks for the cool plugin!

  3. chris’s avatar

    chris on July 27, 2005 at 9:11 pm

    Its quite likely thats actually the problem. Now I’ve got my cache timeout set for longer than that and it works much better.

  4. cb’s avatar

    cb on July 27, 2005 at 9:15 pm

    ah, clever! i just set a cron job for my perl file once a day (my links aren’t so timely that i needed to do it more often).

  5. m.’s avatar

    m. on July 28, 2005 at 6:48 pm

    Chris, the plugin is working fine. I was having some trouble when del.icio.us was not reachable and the page got stalled. But I think that happens to be a problem of magpierss, I’ve upgraded versions and was solved.

  6. j.’s avatar

    j. on November 22, 2005 at 11:55 pm

    I’ve been having problems since I started tinkering with this one. I set my cache time out too low and I read somewhere that sometimes you can get ‘banned’ for trying to get them too often? Relatively new to RSS, so I apologize. I know I’m going to love this plugin once I can figure out how to fix my own errors.

  7. Jonathan Fenocchi’s avatar

    Jonathan Fenocchi on February 9, 2006 at 12:04 pm

    My plugin works, Chris, but for some reason it only displays 2 items, although I have the options set to display 10. Any idea why this is happening?

  8. chris’s avatar

    chris on February 9, 2006 at 2:45 pm

    Sorry, I’ve been neglecting my plugin and I haven’t really made any updates to it.

    Jonathan, et al – Can you send me the feed URLs for feeds where you’re having problems?