Howdy!

I tried to write this on my own, but my javascript-fu is weak. ;)

What I'd love is a script that'd fetch your tags and display them on the "post" page, so that you can tag the url with a few clicks. Something similar's been done for LJ, see http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6828

Ideas, anyone?

to get the popular tags for a particular URL, check out: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/10244
the code is quite straightforward, the fetching is done line 392.

However, I am not sure why you would need that (at least on del.icio.us) as it's a feature they already have... Check out the posting bookmarklet or the del.icio.us firefox extension (well worth installing).

Ah, no, I don't mean popular/recommended tags.

I'm looking for something that'd fetch a list of all MY tags, so that I can choose from those.

I'm not very familiar with del.icio.us (yeah, I'm a bad nerd) but if you're looking for a specific list of tags, it sounds like something you could hard code; there shouldn't be a need to flood their server every time you load a new page.

-Joel

But del.icio.us's default post to delicious bookmarklet already does that by default. It lives on their bookmarklets page.

@Junk Blocker: No, it doesn't. What it does is display a few popular/recommended tags that people have tagged the particular URL with. I'd like a list of all of MY tags that I have used in the past.

@Joel: how would that flood their servers whenever loading a page?.. (Serious question; maybe I'm just not aware of something.)

@undoit, yes it does, at least for me, I have two big list of tags under the postings fields: Your Tags and Your Networks.
When you start typing, you get a list of suggestions extracted from that list of tags/network and if you press tab it completes to the closest suggestion...

I think what Joel means is that if every time you want to post you query for your list of tag, it could be too much queries without much need... so you should cache the results... but that's not your main problem I suppose ;)

Bzuh.

I get neither the taglist nor the network... just the url/desc/notes/tags fields. Weird. I don't get any suggestions upon typing, either. I had no idea del.icio.us had that feature by default.

Nevermind then, I'll try to figure out why it won't work for me.

Thank you all for the taking the time to reply :)

eta: Moron of the Year award goes to me. Custom CSS hid the taglist, plus, none of my bookmarks were shared - apparently they have to be for any tags to show up on the list. *facepalm* Good to know del.icio.us does have that feature, though!

Mortimer is right about what I said. It wouldn't be flooding, that was just hyperbole, but the scheme that was proposed first would require requesting the entire tag list any time you visited a page. Your tag list doesn't likely change much, so it's unnecessary to hit up their servers for your list every time you go to a new page; that's just plain rude. As Mortimer suggests, caching should suit your purposes just fine.

As for Moron of the Year, I would say you don't deserve it; you had the initiative to ask about things like why it would 'flood' the server. For the Moron of the Year award, I would like to nominate all those people who post here asking how to get greasemonkey running, or how to install scripts. They clearly put forth no effort to discover how.

-Joel