Delicious Library
I added a filter to import from Delicious Library, an elegant OS X application. It currently cross-checks everything with the Library of Congress, picking up LC call numbers and so forth. This takes time, and I think it's been tripping people up. So I may cut it down to just picking up the information Delicious Library already has.
If you have problems, email me your file. I only had two files to work onmine and some random guy who posted his music and video game collectionso I may not have caught all the format wrinkles...
If you have problems, email me your file. I only had two files to work onmine and some random guy who posted his music and video game collectionso I may not have caught all the format wrinkles...
posted by Tim at 3:12 PM
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I'm having a couple problems:
1) My Delicious Library file is too large. I solved this by making a copy of it elsewhere, opening D.L., and removing everything that wasn't a book. This works, but it'd be nice if there was a tool to take the D.L. file and remove everything LibraryThing doesn't care about. I don't really think this is your problem; I'm just brainstorming solutions (:
2) My library file has a <recommendations> element inside each <book> entry, and each of those elements has a list of books I don't own that end up being imported anyway. Do you know an easy way to remove these extraneous books before I send the file to the importer? Alternatively, would it be difficult to change the importer so it ignores these books automagically?
Thanks (: Happy to send you a copy of my library file, if you want it. I'm beren on LibraryThing.com.
The importer is now a universal importer, not a DL-specific one. This is better for most purposes, but perhaps not here. The key is to get only the data or the right field. DL doesn't allow you choose which fields to export, but you can open the file up in Excel first. This seems to work well.
Just in case it's not obvious (enough) from the earlier comments here, LibraryThing's "Universal Importer" will NOT just import Delicious Library-exported text file without modification.
The easiest way to go from Delicious Library to LibraryThing is to export from Delicious Library, then load your exported file into a spreadsheet and cut out all but the "upc" field and then export the spreadsheet as a text file and import *this* into LibraryThing.
What about importing LibraryThing TO Delicious Library?
I tried using the export file feature but Delicious crashes every time I try and import it. Not sure what the problem is.
This is a three-year old topic. DL has changed versions a few times since then. I haven't looked at it's export files for some time. I'm not surprised it didn't work, although crashing is regretable.
I'd love to do import to DL, particularly if DL helped export to LibraryThing. I wonder if Will Shipley would be into that?
I'd love to be able to use both applications (web - LibraryThing; mac - Delicious Library) but I can't get them to work together nicely :)
Super frustrating. I have the iSight camera and loading my books by scanning is super easy using Delicious Library. But I cannot figure out how to get them from there into Library Thing, which I would much prefer to use for sharing with friends (I'm the only mac user). Anyone have a solution yet? Hard to believe this topic has been around since 2006 and there's still no compatibility...
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