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Note: this is dangerous. you could loose all your data! and not all features are working!

Flock is a nice browser but only supports del.icio.us and shadows as social bookmarking sites. Since Scuttle offers more or less the same web-api as del.icio.us it should be possible to use it as a replacement when we just hack a different hostname into the Flock. Should. But let’s have a look:

Prepare yourself. Install Scuttle on your webserver or use scuttle.org as your service (not recommended, it’s just a demo of scuttle). Install Flock. Backup all your data. Register at your prefered scuttle-site.

Find the file flockFavoritesWebServiceDelicious.js of your Flock installation. Patch it like this:

centia:/Applications/Flock.app/Contents/MacOS/components sk$ diff flockFavoritesWebServiceDelicious.js flockFavoritesWebServiceDelicious.js.orig
77,80c77,80
< const DELICIOUS_PROT = 'http'
< const DELICIOUS_HOST = 'my.scuttle.url';
< const DELICIOUS_PORT = 80;
< const DELICIOUS_PATH = '/api/';
---
> const DELICIOUS_PROT = 'https'
> const DELICIOUS_HOST = 'api.del.icio.us';
> const DELICIOUS_PORT = 443;
> const DELICIOUS_PATH = '/v1/';
204c204
< zeropad (d.getUTCDate (), 2) + ' ' +
---
> zeropad (d.getUTCDate (), 2) + 'T' +
207c207
< zeropad (d.getUTCSeconds (), 2)
---
> zeropad (d.getUTCSeconds (), 2) + 'Z'


The first code change is for the different URL. The function isoDate needs to be tweaked because scuttle is not API-conform (ISO8601), it just needs a date which goes through php’s strtodate function. so, no „T“ and no „Z“ are allowed.

What works?

• posting of bookmarks
• tagging

What doesn’t work:

• registering within Flock’s Preferences
• editing of bookmarks (scuttle do not support replaces)
• adding new tags to existing bookmarks

Comments welcome.

Tags: browser, flock, hacking, sbm, scuttle, Software
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