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title: "Import by guess"
date: 2005-11-23T08:15:40-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/11/23/import-by-guess/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [asides]
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# Import by guess

Hmph.  So I'm trying to [import my links from del.icio.us to Yahoo!'s My Web][im] to no avail.  While I do have around 5750 links posted to del.icio.us, the export looks like it's clean XML.  But, my only report from Y! is basically, "Well, that didn't work.  Try it again."

[im]: http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/import

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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://www.jm3.net/">John Manoogian III (jm3)</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221089352" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-11-23T16:11:56">2005-11-23T16:11:56</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>or just use http://feedmelinks.com/import/ -- we import del.icio.us-format XML.</p></div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221089355" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-11-23T16:49:07">2005-11-23T16:49:07</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>jm3: Hmph!  That import didn't work for me either!  Not sure if it matters, but I've got about 1.8Mb of del.icio.us-produced XML sitting here that appears to be well-formed at least.  At least, XSL seems to not choke on it and can extract various things myself...</p></div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221089357" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-11-23T23:11:25">2005-11-23T23:11:25</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>deusx: what error did you get?</p></div>
            
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