from xml.dom import minidom

import urllib2, base64

user = 'username'
passwd = 'password'

mindmap = open(user+'.mm', 'w')
mindmap.write('<?xml version="1.0"?>\n')
mindmap.write('<map version="0.7.1">\n')
mindmap.write('<node LINK="http://del.icio.us/%s" TEXT="del.icio.us/%s">\n'%(user, user))

def auth_open(url): 
    request = urllib2.Request(url)
    base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s'%(user, passwd))[: -1]
    request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s"%base64string)
    return urllib2.urlopen(request)

recent_post_data = auth_open('http://del.icio.us/api/posts/recent?count=100').read()
posts = minidom.parseString(recent_post_data).documentElement.getElementsByTagName("post")

tag_data = auth_open('http://del.icio.us/api/tags/get?').read()
xdoc = minidom.parseString(tag_data).documentElement
for tag in xdoc.getElementsByTagName("tag"): 
    category = tag.getAttribute("tag")
    mindmap.write('<node LINK="http://del.icio.us/%s/%s" TEXT="%s" FOLDED="true">\n'%(user, category, category))
    for post in posts: 
        if post.getAttribute("tag").find(category) != -1: 
            mindmap.write('<node LINK="%s" TEXT="%s"/>\n'%(
                post.getAttribute("href").encode('ascii', 
                                                 'xmlcharrefreplace').replace('&', '&amp;'), 
                post.getAttribute("description").encode('ascii', 
                                                        'xmlcharrefreplace').replace('"', '&quot;').replace('&', '&amp;')))
            mindmap.write('</node>\n')
mindmap.write('</node>\n</map>\n')