you've probably considered this already, but you might want to ping Josh - the guy behind del.icio.us - for guidelines around behavior.
one plugin - foxylicious - has already had versions banned for load. be nice to avoid that. - sog On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:07 +1100, Rob Sharp wrote: > Hi all > > Reading Johns email got me wondering about using delicious for > returning links, in a similar way to the google indexer. > > Is there currently a delicious indexer available? If not, I'll give it > a go. I've not used c# before, but it should be reasonably simple to > modify the google driver (SOAP based) to use a delicious API (REST > based), unless someone already has a REST interface available... > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > Rob. > > On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:53:19 +1300, John Stowers > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Everyone, > > > > Ive been reading the beagle hackers guide and am realy interested in > > hacking around. I currently develop in C# on windows, but the maturity > > of the mono project, the cool aplications being developed with it > > (beagle, F-stop, etc) and the encouragement to contribute to projects > > like beagle cause me to begin my switch. > > > > I realy want to have a go at developing something useful for beagle. Im > > thinking a bookmark (read: bookmark content) indexer for firefox/other > > browsers. > > > > Im thinking that upon noticing the bookmark file change it will go off > > and check every website in a users bookmark list, downloading them all > > (text only), and index each bookmarks content (if the website has been > > updated). I know i have about a million bookmarks with thoroughly non > > descriptive titles (hence jsut indexing the bookmark file alone is > > useless), i hope that this will alow me to find them. Does this sound > > like it would be useful to anyone else but me? > > > > So with that out of the way I have a few questions on the general > > operation of beagle - and how my thing will fit in (im a noob to beagle > > and Open source colaborative projects in general) > > Sorry about all the questions..... I'l add their answers to the wiki > > when I know them..... > > > > 1) I presume that what I want to do comes under the general heading of > > an External Search Driver > > 2) As per the hacking guide I set up Inotify events etc. When the > > bookmark file changes foreach bookmark in bookmarks, > > - Download (text only) > > - MD5 > > - Cmpare MD5 with old MD5 of bookmark to see if the site has been > > updated > > - If so add bookmarked site to index > > - else > > 3) See below > > > > Now for the questions > > 1) How does an external query driver add things to the Lucene index > > system. Looking at code for other external drivers (Tomboy in this case) > > > > Indexable indexable = NoteToIndexable (file, note); > > Scheduler.Task task = NewAddTask (indexable); > > task.Priority = priority; > > task.SubPriority = 0; > > ThisScheduler.Add (task); //Is this the line where Beagle becomes > > aware of the info to index (and hence indexes it at some time in future)? > > > > 2) How about persistance between instances, the flow of the operation,... > > (Assuming when parsing the bookmark file, i download each bookmark to a > > tempfile. say ~/beagle/bookmarkstemp/http://www.google.com.temp) > > like if a bookmark changes, when I call This.Schedular for the bookmark > > at some time in future is its uniqueness determined by > > indexable.ContentUri and no harm is done by adding ThisScheduler.Add for > > each bookmark without deleting the old one in the schedular/index? > > > > (aside: instead of using flat files to store the bookmark sites, can I > > use a SQLite database??. Im just wondering what you guys think is the > > tidiest solution > > to prevent me having to reindex every website in a users bookmarks when > > the website may not have been updated - and how this plugs in with each > > task in the schedualr > > and its assoxiated indexable.SetTextReader (which i presume, being a > > text reader, needs a flat file to read text from.)) > > > > Sorry about the barrage of questions, ;-) > > John > > _______________________________________________ > > Dashboard-hackers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers > > > > > -- > Rob Sharp > > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > w: quannum.co.uk > j: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Dashboard-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
