Thanks for adding the space in front of the command -- that keeps this command out of the bash history.

If you don't have curl installed (e.g. Windows machine), simply type the link: https://{your username}:{your password}@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all on your address bar, and use "Save As" to store the resulting XML file. If you see just a blank page (e.g. in Chrome), select "View Source" first, then save the text.

If your security setting blocks using the http://login:pwd@... format, just login to the site and use the link without the login info.

(You can also use wget instead of curl as an alternative.)

Wouldn't be neat that somebody offered to backup this information? They can have something like "donate your bookmarks" and I'll upload my full export.

The ArchiveTeam would probably be interested in this: http://archiveteam.org/

Be even better if someone would make a torrent out of it all.

Settings -> Export / Backup Bookmarks

Note: this exports as HTML. The XML export is arguably more useful.

That's not just HTML -- it's the Netscape Bookmark File Format. There are (admittedly very old) tools that can work with it.

Both are very useful. The HTML export is in a standard format importable by browsers and other bookmarking services.

I wrote a quick webapp to help ppl export links (for the command line skittish): http://mattcrampton.com/delicious

Yay for REST. Thank you Ixiaus.