Latest version: 07/05/23 (07/05/31 breaks)
What Are Technorati Favorites?
Technorati is one of the two largest blog search engines. Favorites is a way to bookmark other blogs on the Technorati site. By favoriting a blog on Technorati it shows up on your favorites list and you can limit your blog searches to only search within your favorites. It’s a good way to track blogs you don’t want to subscribe to the RSS feeds for.
What is Technorati Favorite Your Fans?
This is a program that connects to the Technorati.com service, finds everyone who has favorited your blog and automatically favorites them back.
But Why Use This?
If someone has gone to the trouble of adding you to their favorites, this program will return the favor, without requiring you to go through all of the people who have favorited you and trying to find the ones you haven’t favorited back. This is something people already do, and this program is intended to save them time by automating the process.
How It Works
It only favorites a blog once. If you log into the Technorati website and delete a blog from your favorites they will not be added again. I strongly suggest checking the latest posts from your favorites and deleting any blogs that you don’t like. If any of the blogs look like spam you should report them to Technorati.
It doesn’t always grab everyone who favorited you on the first try because of issues with Technorati. Even if you look at the Favorited-By list on the web you’ll see duplicates and missing names. But if you run it once a week then over time it will get everyone.
The first time you use this program it will add my blog to your list of favorites, feel free to delete it and it won’t be added again.
Download Technorati Favorite Your Fans
- Windows users can grab the program here [2.4MB].
- Macs users can run it using Parallels or Perl.
- Linux users can run it using WINE or Perl.
- People who are familiar/comfortable with Perl can download the source code here [50 kB]. You will have install some modules from CPAN.
- NOTE: this is the *latest* version of the code, and may be different than what is documented.
How to Install
- Download the zip file (see above)
- Unzip the zip file
- Execute the program
- Double click on technoratiff.exe in the directory where it was unzipped
- Enter your Technorati username and password
- Press Run
Like It? Link It!
Please encourage other people who are participating in the Technorati favorites exchange to use this program by adding a link on your blog.
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Advanced Users
Unix users can use the program with cron and Windows users can use the program with Windows Scheduler by using the –nogui (two minus signs) option on the command line.
technoratiff --nogui
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50 Comments
I love this idea! I think I found a bug with with the -nogui switch - it doesn’t work! I tried adding it to the Task Schedualer and it opens the main window (and doesn’t start), I also tried running it directly from the command line and get the same result…
Saman, try –nogui instead (two minus signs)
My documentation is wrong. :)
ok, my documentation is correct, wordpress is just being a moron and converting double minus sign into a dash.
Cool, thanks!!
What is the other largest search engine for blogs?
Thanks
Google Blog Search
http://blogsearch.google.com/
very cool. :)
Great work, appreciate it very much!
Great tool! Works just like advertised!
Wonderfully easy, too.
Kenneth
New version because of Technorati update.
http://technorati-favorite-fans.googlecode.com/files/technoratiff-070523.zip
New version because of Technorati update.
http://technorati-favorite-fans.googlecode.com/files/technoratiff-070531.zip
Been looking for this update. Guess you bailed on Technorati.
Great piece of software :) Nice work
This seems to not be working again. Just wanted to let you know.
This is the version that is working for me right now:
http://technorati-favorite-fans.googlecode.com/files/technoratiff-070523.zip
Yep, me too.
Dunno what happened.
I confirm the version from 23/05/07 (or 05/23/07 for North Americans) is working, the newest version has problems.
i agree. 070531 isn’t working, 070523 is….
thanks for a cool tool!
quick question: is there a quick way to delete all my existing favorites?
–steve
Steve, that’s a good idea. I should put that in.
I’m also going to release a new version that works again. Technorati was changing their website every 5 minutes or so for a while there.
I would love that feature. My favorites won’t display at the moment:
http://technorati.com/faves/stevespeirs
Technorati response: “I’m afraid that there is currently a time out that is occuring for accounts that have a very large number of favorites. We greatly apologize for any inconvenience. You should be still be able to access your tagged favorites. We are working on resolving this issue.”
I have an .opml file of my favorites with which I’d like to replace my current favorites list. To do this I need to delete all my current ones….
I’ll subscribe to your feed and look out for the new version. Thanks!
–Steve
subscribing to your email…..
Eric, thank you for this program - it has picked up twenty-eight blogs I hadn’t included in my list. Very helpful, and thanks.
Amazing piece of software. I wonder if you can do the same for MyblogLog. I do not know if it has any value but it would be nice to increase the number of friends in MyBlogLog. :D
Francesco
Guadagnare online Nuovibusiness
@Francesco - not a bad idea.
Great concept,but it didn’t work for me. It said that technorati doesn’t use that version anymore. But it could just be me. I have a great way of getting Faves As well, I have a guest book just foe technorati and backlinks. it’s a tool that work’s because the guest book doesn’t require there e-mails and people seem to like that. My site is http://cre8asite.blogspot.com I am allways looking for new friends…jill
Ooh, great tool - thanks very much for this! Cross-platform, too ;-)
Cheers,
TOM
@jill:
I just tried it out and it still works.
Very Nice thank you so very much….what a wonderful program!!
~Shinade
This is an absolute breeze to use….brilliant idea and a great time saver too :)
I just installed and ran this tool–works great. Thank you very much
Got everything downloaded and opened but unable to run it
Get the error message
Could not find list of blogs on Technorati http://technorati.com/profile/wenfri
1:Troubleshooting:
Did Tecnorati change their page structure? Click on the “Check for update” button to see if there is a new version of program
Wendy
I just did it successfully…thanks! and I’ll spread the word!
Very easy to install and it works great! I’ll spread the word out and link to you! Thank you! :-)
This is fantastic! I’m so happy to have found it .. Saves me LOTS of time! Would love to see one that adds all the top FAVORITE sites.. but I’m happy with this. Thank you so much !
Great app this is!
Yeah, thanks for spreading the words. It’s here now and as a gratitude I brought along: Greetings and lotta loves from Malaysia.
Interesting and very readable post - just like the rest of your blog - thanks for sharing!
Here from your group announcement on BC - very effective!
The program sounds interesting, but you find the same on WP Dashboard and when looking at your Technorati profile, don’t you?
@ RennyBA:
I’m confused by your comment.
When you run it, it will automatically favorite back everyone who has favorited you on technorati.
It doesn’t have anything to do with your WP Dashboard, and to my knowledge Technorati doesn’t have that option.
very interesting… i shall have to read up on this a little more and try to implement it into my blog… Great Post!!
This stuff is very great.
Great tool! I just installed it and it worked for me!
Nice little program. Worked like a charm for me.
Great tool for auto fav.
It isn’t working for me. It just finds the first one, and says I only have 10 favorites? I’ve got over 160.
thanks for the program! my link is here here for those who wish to submit manually
Useful program.Keep updating
thanx for the free software. it really makes it easy to do technorati favs exchange. before finding this software, I had to check if people have faved mine or not, now its so simple. thanx again.
Didn’t work anymore! :-( do you think upgrade it??
I was happy to hear about your utility. Unfortunately I was not able to successfully download it. The download kept saying that the file was corrupted. After three attempts I had to give up. I may have lost the battle, but I am determined to win the war. Please let me know what I can try next. Thanks. Take care
any new version? old one not working any more
great-great tools!
thanks.
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