sociolog - Your trail across social media
on Softwareweneed
I write or blog in different media:
- A private blog with restricted access (because it contains family pictures)
- This blog
From time to time I find it nice to scroll through my past. I do this most often on our family blog, because it contains the most interesting content and because it is easy to scroll through. I would like to be able to scroll through all my past across all media.
So this is what my software should do:
- Collect all entries I wrote in the social media:
- Wordpress
- Create one document per entry in a Github Repo
- Handle properly duplicate content: Since some years my Twitter account is linked to my Facebook account in that Twitter entries are replicated to Facebook. That’s because I have people that I consider audience in both media.
- Collect also the feedback to my posts
- Nicely display them in a static way, including overview pages
Some technical thoughts:
- I would write it in java because that’s what I know best
- Would be a headless program i.e. no UI
- Input should be the date of the last recorded social media entry
- It collects all the entries (including the comments to it) on the different social media channels since that date
- It dedupes them (i.e. merges the ones that are the same or replicates of one another on different channels)
- It creates one document / file per social media entry and writes them in an output directory
- This directory is then replicated / added to a github account
- Social media entry documents would be named like
2015-12-03-The_title_of_what_ I_wrote-TWITTER.json - There would be a header file with a fixed name, i.e.
sociologs.json. This file would hold the first 20 logs and point to a file with the next logs. - The domain
sociolog.iowould be available - as of today, Jan 4 2016. - The generated
index.htmlwould load the data via JS/AJAX requests and continue loading while the user scrolls down
If anyone is interested, or has comment, please get in touch at tilldotgartneratgmaildotcom.
