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We released an API for Connotea, our scientific bookmarking service, back in May of last year. It's your data, so it seemed fitting that we provide a way for you to get at it programmatically if you so desire. It's been cool to see people build proper applications on top of the functionality that the API provides (Robert Muetzelfeldt's MultiGuise is one such app).

People have also been using the API on a smaller scale to extend Connotea's funtionality, often in conjunction with the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox (if you run Firefox and don't have Greasemonkey installed, I urge you to go and download it now).

Here are a few recent examples of scripts and plugins that let you do more with Connotea. Some of them were written by us and some were contributed by users (see the 'Connotea Tools' wiki page for more details):

Tools that anybody can use

• Use your Connotea bookmarks in Word 2007
• Copy del.icio.us bookmarks to Connotea (only your last 100 bookmarks, though: the Perl version below has no such limitation)
• Add a Connotea option to the Firefox OpenSearch box

Greasemonkey scripts

• Attach PDFs to your bookmarks
• Add a five star rating control to your bookmarks
• See which of your bookmarks have been commented on by science bloggers
• Add an "Add to Connotea" button next to PubMed results
• Move your recent Del.icio.us bookmarks to Connotea

Perl / Ruby scripts

• Copy del.icio.us bookmarks to Connotea (in Perl)
• Copy Connotea bookmarks to del.icio.us (in Ruby)