Database Reference
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Despite its uncertain future, the Delicious service collects some of the most useful information
on URLs I've found. The API returns the top 10 tags for any URL, together with a count of how
many times each tag has been used (
Figure 1-2
)
.
Figure1-2.Delicious tags
You don't need a key to use the API, and it supports JSONP callbacks, allowing you to access
it even within completely browser-based applications. Here's
some PHP sample code on github
,
but the short version is you call to
http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json/urlinfo/data?hash
= with the
MD5 hash of the URL appended, and you get back a JSON string containing the tags:
md5 -s http://petewarden.typepad.com/
MD5 ("http://petewarden.typepad.com/") = 7527287d9d937c59a3250ef3a60671f3
curl "http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json/urlinfo/data?\
hash=7527287d9d937c59a3250ef3a60671f3"
[{
"hash":"7527287d9d937c59a3250ef3a60671f3",
"title":"PeteSearch",
"url":"http:\/\/petewarden.typepad.com\/",
"total_posts":78,
"top_tags":{"analytics":29,"blog":28,"data":26,"facebook":20,
