Saving Scrumptious
I noticed the other day that Scrumptious had stopped displaying existing tags and comments for webpages. Sure enough, the del.icio.us crew has radically changed the format of the link page. Since this data is not available via the XML API, I would have to adapt the HTML screen scraping code that I use to extract it. Problem is, I don’t really have time to do this right now, what with releasing AllPeers and all.
At first I figured I would just put Scrumptious out to pasture, since now del.icio.us has its own Firefox extension, written and maintained by a real team. I installed the extension, and it’s undeniably better than nothing. At the same time, I still prefer Scrumptious, mainly because I like the sidebar more than a popup window.
So in the admittedly unlikely event that someone wants to update Scrumptious, please let me know. I’ll happily provide some guidance about how to do so, ample acknowledgement, eternal gratitude, etc. Otherwise I guess I’ll have to get used to the del.icio.us extension.
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Just in case you didn’t know, the unoffical del.icio.us extension is way better than the offical one. Try it out: http://delicious.mozdev.org/
Comment by meitsjustme — 3/29/2006 @ 11:52 pm
When I try to install Scrumptious 1.1, and I just get ‘not a valid package’. Same result if I download and try to install it locally.
Comment by Brian King — 3/30/2006 @ 8:56 am
I don’t know why it’s doing that. In any case, I changed the install link to point to the official Mozilla Update site. The version there should presumably install without problem.
Comment by Matt — 3/30/2006 @ 9:06 am