Stale

Stale identifies and deletes stale Pinboard links.

You can grab the latest code package by cloning this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/jparise/stale.git

... or by downloading the latest tarball.

Usage

usage: stale.py [-h] [-t TOKEN] [--ignore REGEX [REGEX ...]] [-d] [-e] [-v]
                [--version]

Identify (and optionally delete) stale Pinboard links.

optional arguments:
-h, --help            show this help message and exit
-t TOKEN, --token TOKEN
                      your Pinboard API token ('username:hex-values')
--ignore REGEX [REGEX ...]
                      ignore links from these hosts
-d, --delete          delete stale links
-e                    equate errors with staleness
-v                    enable verbose output
--version             show program's version number and exit

You can find your personal Pinboard API token in your Settings. It will look like <pinboard-username>:<long-string-of-hex-values>.

SSL Certificates

Stale visits each link to verify that it is still active. Because most hosts use SSL, it's important for your Python environment to have a current set of SSL certificates. Otherwise, the connection attempt might fail with an error like [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed.

For macOS, you can update your certificates by running this command:

/Applications/Python\ 3.7/Install\ Certificates.command