Double integration between Chrome and Delicious

Written on Sep 22, 2009 // Net, Open Source.

Exactly in the same way we can incorporate Chrome ( or Chromium in my case ) with Google Bookmarks, it is possible to perform a double integration between the browser and Delicious.

The bookmarklet section of this little how-to will show you how to share bookmarks with a single click from chrome, while the search one will guide you to setup a personalized search engine to quickly query your own Delicious bookmarks.

If you prefer a visual approach to the whole process or just want to look at the result have a jump to gallery.

The Bookmarklet

Delicious offers a wide range of bookmarklets, each ad-hoc calibrated for one browser. Just visit their bookmarklet page, scroll down a bit looking for the Google Chrome section and finally drag & drop the Bookmark on Delicious link to your bookmarks bar ( CTRL + B to show if you haven’t yet).

The title of the new bookmark got a long title and takes a lot of space. I usually edit bookmarklets so that they occupy as little space as possible. So right click on the new bookmark, select edit and change the name value with a short code ( I preferred DL but type whatever you want).

You can now navigate to any page you want to share via delicious and then click on the bookmark. The browser will be redirected to a Delicious pre-compiled form, which you can complete with tags and sharing options and then save.

The search

Bookmarking and sharing is good but having the possibility to browse all your saved bookmarks is definitely better. As done with Google Bookmarks even in Delicious we can simply create a new search engine using our own bookmarks repository.

Right click on the address bar and select edit search engines. Click on add to create a new engine and add the following values, obviously replacing USERNAME with your Delicious username.

Name: Delicious
Keyword: dl
Url: http://delicious.com/search?p=%s&chk=&fr=del_icio_us&lc=1&atags=&rtags=&context=userposts|USERNAME|

Click on ok and you’re done!

Now go back to your address bar, type “dl” and then press tab to activate the new search engine. Type the query you want to look for and press return. You will be redirected to a Delicious search page, showing only your bookmarks containing the string you typed!