Feed Me Links is a “web application” to manage your bookmarks/links/favorites. Although it provides several interesting features for sharing links, it's primary goal is to help you organize and use your links, while helping you find new things you've not seen before.

• We are user-oriented. This is not something we do for money. It's something we needed, so we made and maintain it. We are information junkies, like you, and we needed a way to keep track of all the sites, feeds, and content that swarms around us daily. We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of the dreams...
• We like XML. We like RSS.
• We like whatever browser you like.
• We like source control.
• We “publish or perish.”
  • Check out our bug list!
  • Read our email conversations! etc.
  • Peruse the Feed Me Links News.
• Nb. we like acronyms

Bookmarks files:

• don't scale
• not easily share-able
• tied to a single computer/browser

Other online bookmarks managers:

• tend to have strange, geek-centric user communities
• present clunky, cumbersome interface
• avoid the fun side of social linking: friends, comments, shareable URLs, etc....

• musicians
• geeks
• writers
• moms
• kids
• designers
• painters
• programmers
• you?

view our press clippings to read more about us.

Marvel at the WALL OF ANCIENTS, our user hall of fame.

Yes there is! Join us on Gourmands, the Feed Me Links email discussion list. It's relatively low-traffic.

Of course! We're all about sharing. The code is a total mess, so, you know -- be forewarned.

if you just want to look at the source code, you can browse it online at Tools to Make Tools.

if you want to download a complete working copy, you need Subversion. From a command-line, type:

svn export http://toolstomaketools.svnrepository.com/svn/codepot/feedmelinks/

User: anonymous
Password: <none>

For general questions, please use Gourmands, our mailing list.

If you're sure you've found a bug, please check first that it hasn't been reported already by someone else. To see the list of reported bugs/issues, view the list of open tickets.

If you don't see it already reported, please Let us know!

Get the Feed Me Links Bookmarklet and you’re all set!

Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape, IE, Safari, and Opera users can drag the button to their toolbar.

Windows IE users get a Whiz-bang Feed Me Links Bookmarklet Installer! There is also kickass integration with Firefox / Mozilla: we have an excellent XUL bookmarklet interface, browser sidebars.

And for the users who demand more, we also provide a Flash Sidebar!

Use the search box on the top of the page and then press the "my links only" checkbox on the results page, like so

A Tag is the basic unit or organization on Feed Me Links. In geek-speak, tags are metadata values, or attributes.

(Some people call organizing your content with tags “creating a folksonomy”. These people are weird.)

With Feed Me Links, you can create whatever tags you like. Name then with any characters, spaces, punctuation you like. Every tag has it's own, unique URL on Feed Me Links -- use these URLs to share lists of links with friends: e.g. My Icons tag: http://feedmelinks.com/f/298

Rename your tags whenever you like, and the URLs will still work!

Tags are also used on Flickr and other places.

Yes, yes, and YES!

We happily import favorites (aka Bookmarks, etc.) from del.icio.us, Firefox, IE, and Mozilla. Your link names will be preserved and Feed Me Links will create a tagging structure for you which matches the folders in your favorites / bookmarks file.

Note that we limit on the number of links which can be imported from a single favorites file (currently 1,000 links per file). This limit is just an arbitrary governor to prevent spammers -- and we will be happy to raise your import limit if you ask us.

go to The Importer to import your links.

Yes. can make your links available to you as XML over HTTP or RSS. Contact us for access and the API details.

Yes but no. :-(
Unfortunately, I've disabled this feature for now because it's too easy to send mail as someone else. if anyone knows how to verify SPF records or something liek that, let me know.

Soon we'll do what Flickr (wisely) does and generate you a unique email address for sending links by name; knowing that email address wil constitute a kind of "password" that guarantees some level of security.

Send emails from your mail program (or script) to "add @ feedmelinks . com" (no spaces)

The format for messages is:

Subject: Description of the link

first line of email body: URL of the link

Any additional body text will be added to the link as comments.

Note that the email address you are sending from MUST match your Feed Me Links user account email address. Otherwise the link will not be added.

We try to use clean, easy to type URLs for common things. Note that in these examples, 22 is the tag ID for the tag "foo".

view all links tagged with tag "foo":

http://feedmelinks.com/f/22

view all links tagged with tag "foo" as RSS:

http://feedmelinks.com/f/22/rss

view all links belonging to user "bar" as RSS:

http://feedmelinks.com/u/r/bar

view all links tagged with tag "foo", in condensed view:

http://feedmelinks.com/f/22/c

view all links tagged with tag "foo" as a firefox/mozilla sidebar:

http://feedmelinks.com/f/22/sidebar

view all links tagged with tag "foo", sorted by date:

http://feedmelinks.com/f/22/by-date

view all links tagged with tag "foo", sorted by name:

http://feedmelinks.com/f/22/by-name

by-name and by-date can be combined with condensed, btw:

/f/22/c/by-date)

The following 3 older URL schema still work but are officially deprecated. They will be removed at some point in the future.

f/c/22 (to view condensed)

f/r/22 (to view RSS)

f/s/22 (to view as a sidebar)

RSS Feed URLs:

By user:

http://feedmelinks.com/u/r/USERNAME

example: http://feedmelinks.com/u/r/jm3

By tag:

http://feedmelinks.com/f/TAGNUMBER/rss

example: http://feedmelinks.com/f/434/rss

XML endpoints for the Feed Me Links REST API:

authenticate using HTTP-Basic authentication:
http://feedmelinks.com/xml/authenticate
(pass user and password)

retrieve your links as XML:
http://feedmelinks.com/api/user/YOUR_USERNAME

retrieve the last 15 public links as XML::
http://feedmelinks.com/api/recent

retrieve the last 15 public links of someone else as XML::
http://feedmelinks.com/api/recent/THEIR_USERNAME

retrieve all your tags as XML:
http://feedmelinks.com/api/tags

retrieve all links tagged with a particular tag:
http://feedmelinks.com/api/tag/TAGNUMBER

search Feed Me Links:
http://feedmelinks.com/api/search?q=SEARCHWORD

rename a link:
http://feedmelinks.com/api/rename/USERNAME&id=LINK_ID&name=NAME

add tags to a link:
http://feedmelinks.com/api/add_tags/USERNAME&id=LINK_ID&tags=COMMA,SEPARATED,TAGS

# get your peeps as XML:
http://feedmelinks.com/api/peeps

Information about feeds and Javascript

Contact Us for additional help or documentation...

please see developers.feedmelinks.com.

See Help > Including Feeds

First, Get a newsreader. I recommend Sage if you use Firefox or bloglines, although many folks enjoy netnewswire pro or blo.gs. Point your newsreader to the Feed Me Links feeds you want to subscribe to. These instructions may prove handy.

Si! Ja! Oui! Da! (etc.)
We have people linking from France, Italy, Canada, Japan, China, Finland, etc.

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