Christoph Erhardt, a student I advise is currently working on a new tool
for browsing tag clouds.
For this he downloaded about 1700 sets of web site + tags from
del.icio.us. As the official del.icio.us API only gives you
access to your own sites+tags, the student had to parse the html from the
web site.
He discovered the following limitations:
- In the summary for a web site del.icio.us only shows tags which are used
by at least two persons. If you also want tags that only have been
assigned by one person, you have to look at the tags which each single
person has assigned. - Sometimes you only get "There is no del.icio.us history for this url"
when accessing a bookmark. If you wait a little bit and reload, it usually
works again. - One web site had been tagged by over 24,000 people. This always lead to
a timeout when loading the detail page for this bookmark. Might be a
problem of the parser library, though. - After about 400 accesses del.icio.us thinks that is enough. You get a
HTTP 999 error code until you change your IP.
Reflected Total Internal Frustration 