Using Ruby to generate Social Bookmarks for your Web Pages

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Using Ruby to generate Social Bookmarks for your Web Pages

I am a big fan of using static html pages in my web sites where possible.

Most of my web sites use some custom coded Ruby scripts as my personal content management systems or CMS to generate my various and sundry web sites.

One of the functions inside my CMS is used to generate a bookmark bar so anyone can mark the page on a number of popular sites.

The Build Bookmarks Procedure

This particular procedure -- named buildBookmarks() -- needs to encode the web page url and title. It uses the available escape function in Ruby's CGI library.

require 'cgi'

Here is the basic function to create bookmarking code for several popular sites.

#----------------------------------------------------------------------
#-- use $gSiteUrl, $gUrl and $gTitle.
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
def buildBookmarks()
eUrl = CGI::escape($gSiteUrl + $gUrl)
eTitle = CGI::escape($gTitle)

res = "Share: "
res << "<a href=\"http://del.icio.us/post?url={url}&title={title}\">Del.icio.us</a> | "
res << "<a href=\"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url={url}&title={title}\">Digg</a> | "
res << "<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u={url}&t={title}\">Facebook</a> | "
res << "<a href=\"http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk={url}&title={title}\">Google Bookmarks</a> | "
res << "<a href=\"http://reddit.com/submit?url={url}&title={title}\">Reddit</a> | "
res << "<a href=\"http://www.technorati.com/faves?add={url}\">Technorati</a> | "
res << "<a href=\"https://favorites.live.com/quickadd.aspx?url={url}&title={title}\">Windows Live</a> | "
res << "<a href=\"http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u={url}&t={title}\">Yahoo! My Web</a>"
res = res.gsub('{url}',eUrl)
res = res.gsub('{title}',eTitle)

return res
end

Here is some sample code to call the buildBookmarks() procedure:

$gSiteUrl = "http://www.bradtrupp.com/"
$gUrl = "ruby-build-social-bookmarks.html"
$gTitle = "Using Ruby to generate Social Bookmarks for your Web Pages"

mybookmark = buildBookmarks();

Now the mybookmark variable has social bookmarking code ready to insert into your html page.

The resulting html code will look something like this:

Share:
<a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradtrupp.com%2Fruby-build-social-bookmarks.html&title=Using+Ruby+to+generate+Social+Bookmarks+for+your+Web+Pages">Del.icio.us</a> |
<a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradtrupp.com%2Fruby-build-social-bookmarks.html&title=Using+Ruby+to+generate+Social+Bookmarks+for+your+Web+Pages">Digg</a> |
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradtrupp.com%2Fruby-build-social-bookmarks.html&t=Using+Ruby+to+generate+Social+Bookmarks+for+your+Web+Pages">Facebook</a> |
<a href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradtrupp.com%2Fruby-build-social-bookmarks.html&title=Using+Ruby+to+generate+Social+Bookmarks+for+your+Web+Pages">Google Bookmarks</a> |
<a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradtrupp.com%2Fruby-build-social-bookmarks.html&title=Using+Ruby+to+generate+Social+Bookmarks+for+your+Web+Pages">Reddit</a> |
<a href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradtrupp.com%2Fruby-build-social-bookmarks.html">Technorati</a> |
<a href="https://favorites.live.com/quickadd.aspx?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradtrupp.com%2Fruby-build-social-bookmarks.html&title=Using+Ruby+to+generate+Social+Bookmarks+for+your+Web+Pages">Windows Live</a> |
<a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradtrupp.com%2Fruby-build-social-bookmarks.html&t=Using+Ruby+to+generate+Social+Bookmarks+for+your+Web+Pages">Yahoo! My Web</a>

List of Social Bookmarking Sites

Here is a short list of sites you can submit to -- as of early 2008.

Just substitute the [URL] and [TITLE] variables with the correct values for your web pages,

Ask

http://myjeeves.ask.com/mysearch/BookmarkIt?v=1.2&t=webpages&url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Blinkbits

http://www.blinkbits.com/bookmarklets/save.php?v=1&source_url=[URL]

BlinkList

http://blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=[URL]&Title=[TITLE]

Blogmarks

http://blogmarks.net/my/new.php?mini=1&simple=1&url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Bluedot

http://bluedot.us/Authoring.aspx?u=[URL]&t=[TITLE]

Connotea

http://www.connotea.org/addpopup?continue=confirm&uri=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/post?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Digg

http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Diigo

http://www.diigo.com/post?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

dzone

http://www.dzone.com/links/add.html?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=[URL]&t=[TITLE]

Fark

http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/submit.pl?new_url=[URL]&new_comment=[TITLE]&linktype=

Furl

http://furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=[URL]&t=[TITLE]

Google Bookmarks

http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

ma.gnolia

http://ma.gnolia.com/bookmarklet/add?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Newsvine

http://www.newsvine.com/_wine/save?u=[URL]&h=[TITLE]

Rawsugar

http://www.rawsugar.com/tagger/?turl=[URL]&tttl=[TITLE]&editorInitialized=1

reddit

http://reddit.com/submit?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Shoutwire

http://www.shoutwire.com/?p=submit&&link=[URL]

Simpy

http://www.simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?href=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Slashdot

http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Smarking

http://smarking.com/editbookmark/?url=[URL]

Spurl

http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Squidoo

http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/bookmark?[URL]

StumbleUpon

http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

SWiK

http://stories.swik.net/?submitUrl&url=[URL]

Tailrank

http://tailrank.com/share/?link_href=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Technorati

http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=[URL]

Windows Live

https://favorites.live.com/quickadd.aspx?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Wists

http://wists.com/r.php?c=&r=[URL]&tot;e=[TITLE]

Yahoo! My Web

http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=[URL]&t=[TITLE]

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