If you just want to download the bookmarks you can simply execute $ curl https://user:pass@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all https://user:pass@api.del.icio.us/v1/po

If you just want to download the bookmarks you can simply execute $ curl https://user:pass@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all https://user:pass@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all > delicious.xml I was running it from cron to do daily backups. EDIT: I've just noticed that somebody has already posted a similar command, so sorry for a duplicate.