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An ongoing debate in the world of content strategy, design, experience and development is that of how much is too much. I have been around the development world for a…
I saw an interesting program recently that opened my eyes to a fascinating concept. It is nothing new, in fact, social data mining has been an institution for years. Every…
YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) gives you some possible control over creating scrapers and rest endpoints very quickly. Uses basic SQL syntax. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D’http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fworld’%20and%20xpath%3D’%2F%2Fdiv%5B%40class%3D%22content%22%5D%2F%2Fdiv%5B%40class%3D%22txt%22%5D%2Fp’#h=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D%27http%3A//www.pinterest.com/hersheycompany%27%20and%20xpath%3D%27//*%5Bcontains%28concat%28%22%20%22%2C%20normalize-space%28@class%29%2C%20%22%20%22%29%2C%20%22%20UserInfoBar%20%22%29%5D/ul%27 Hit test, this is a basic scraper that…
Using regular expressions you can extract the username from a twitter URL. var twitterURL = item.link; var twitterName = twitterURL.match(/https?:\/\/(www\.)?twitter\.com\/(#!\/)?@?([^\/]*)/)[3];
Found this little nugget while doing some research for a new project. Easily access the Twitter API methods. https://github.com/danielcrenna/tweetsharp
Facebook has been a point of contention for social media data collectors for a while now. Mostly because the data that is available is only what user privacy restrictions will…