Bear's Log

I was doing the usual tinderbox/build debugging, working with dev’s with svn issues, answering questions, monitoring feeds, researching an item on Google and playing with the cat (grin) when I saw Cote post this twitter:

Are there ant scripts/etc. to grab my Google Reader shared stuff and post them to del.icio.us on a cron job, nightly, or whatever?

I didn’t immediately have an answer but it must have been have stuck, because later after dinner while Cosmo 0.8 RC5 was building I thought of a way to do a simple command line tool that would pull feeds, grab items and then build a del.icio.us post for each item. So I created Spinta. It basically takes the output of the Universal Feed Parser and shuffles each item around and then calls on pydelicious to post the item. About an hour but most of that was my usual futzing about with the code’s structure ;)

Hopefully this will help Cote.