Cynical people like myself may feel a little uncomfortable giving you
guys our username/password. Is there any way this could work with just
my username?
Interesting.
I much prefer app writers to use the API rather than scrape. Of course,
I want people writing apps that work on people's data to get some sort of
consent from the user to use that data; the user inputting the
username/password clearly gives this consent. However there are obvious
security reasons to never do that.
It seems to me that there are several possibilities:
- there could be a password or key or whatever for the API that lets some
third party into a user account in a more limited sense (a sort of
weakened trust)
- you could ask delicious to upload data to the app on behalf for the user
(continuing to trust delicious)
- you could download the posts/all file from the API and
upload it to the app separately (no trust exchanged, but least friendly
to the user)
Thoughts?
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