Thanks for adding the space in front of the command -- that keeps this command out of the bash history.

If you don't have curl installed (e.g. Windows machine), simply type the link: https://{your username}:{your password}@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all on your address bar, and use "Save As" to store the resulting XML file. If you see just a blank page (e.g. in Chrome), select "View Source" first, then save the text.

If your security setting blocks using the http://login:pwd@... format, just login to the site and use the link without the login info.

(You can also use wget instead of curl as an alternative.)

Wouldn't be neat that somebody offered to backup this information? They can have something like "donate your bookmarks" and I'll upload my full export.

Settings -> Export / Backup Bookmarks

I wrote a quick webapp to help ppl export links (for the command line skittish): http://mattcrampton.com/delicious

Yay for REST. Thank you Ixiaus.