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[[Category:How-To]] [[Category:Computers]][http://www.delicious-monster.com Delicious Library] is an outstanding Mac OS X program for organizing personal book, movie, and CD collections. It's a little pricey at $40, but it's worth the dollars if you own a lot of media and are somewhat obsessive-compulsive.  ==Wiki-fying a Delicious Library== Unfortunately, it the program doesn't come with a great way to export the data to the web. This page will tell you how to convert your Delicous Library into a MediaWiki table, suitable for use on the [[Books You're Welcome to Borrow]] page.
First, you need to download this Perl script: [[Media:DeliciousExport.pl]]. (You may need to control-click and say "Save As...".)
perl DeliciousExport.pl
===If it can't find a library===
You might get an error about not being able to find HTML::Template or something like that. That's OK, it's not too hard to download. Type
perl DeliciousExport.pl
===If it's working properly===It'll ask you for your name, the location and type of the booksyour collection, and your Unix ID. This information is used to make the format consistent with the [[Books You're Welcome to Borrow]] page. If you want a different format, like plain HTML, you can of course open up the script and poke around. It's only 35 lines of codea short script, so you should be able to figure out what's going on, even if you don't know Perl. Also, you can change the script to spit out your movies or CDs instead of books. Just change "/library/items/book" to "/library/items/movie" or "/library/items/music" on line 18.
By default, the script will print to the Terminal window. That's actually not very useful. If you want it to show up in a TextEdit window, from which you can copy it into the web browser, type
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