How to get RSS feeds from the new Delicious

The new delicious is finally up. Not all that much different but I am excited because I use it every day.

One of the features I use every day is the RSS. When I heard delicious had enabled RSS feeds today, I went to the site right-away to set them up. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find them anywhere.

After going through my archives I have been able to reconstruct them. Here’s the format they are currently using:

http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/username/tag

username – your delicious username, without the brackets

/tag – This is optional but if you want to limit the RSS feed to a particular tag you will need to insert a / and then the tag.

For example, if you wanted to keep track of all the bookmarks I’ve tagged “SEO” you would use:

http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/davidzimm/seo

If you just wanted all my wonderful delicious bookmarks, including all things Star Wars, Gardening, and recipes, you would use:

http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/davidzimm

In case delicious changes this URL format, I’ll keep you up to date in this post. I would also love to see the new “Stacks” feature have an RSS feed. This would be a great way to share content about a topic (like the SEO stack I’ve created).

 

The reason delicious RSS feeds are so important to me, is because I use them to populate and archive useful links I share through my Twitter account (@dizzySEO). Here’s how I do it.

  1. When I find a great SEO article (that I want to reference later or don’t have time to read at this moment) I bookmark it in delicious.
  2. I take the RSS feed from my delicious bookmarks (tagged “SEO”) and give it to TwitterFeed.
  3. TwitterFeed is set up to send the links to my Twitter account automatically, trickling them in the stream throughout the day.

This way I have the following advantages:

  1. I have an archive of helpful SEO articles in my delicious account
  2. I have a useful Twitter account about SEO- sharing useful information about SEO (at least I hope so).
  3. Because I have shared them through Twitter, I consequently have a helpful paper.li account about SEO with a summary of the content I’ve shared every day.

 

 

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2 Responses to “How to get RSS feeds from the new Delicious”

  1. Tasha Says:
    January 5th, 2012 at 1:30 am

    Hi, I came across this blog when searching for information about the new delicious and rss feeds. Using the old delicious, a summary (or a user comment) about each article in the rss feed would appear below the link to the article. This was very useful as it helped me decide whether or not to read the article. With the new delicious, using an rss feed, these summaries do not appear. Delicious technical support has not responded to my emails. DO you have any idea how to restore this functionality?
    Thanks,
    Tasha

  2. dz Says:
    January 10th, 2012 at 9:00 pm

    There are a lot of changes between the old and new Delicious and this looks like one that never made it into the new version. That’s not to say that it won’t- it seems like they are gradually working to build it out- but I cannot tell you if or when this particular feature might come back from the dead.

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