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Show HN: Web crawler for social profile links
- vail130 11y agoPretty cool. Do you have any particular use-cases in mind? I could imagine it rolled into a bigger suite of social media management tools for brands. It could help them follow the people who follow them on other channels or something. Not sure about the consumer use-case, though.
- yask123 11y agoThanks! Not sure who would use it :P It was just a fun project. But I do think there should exist such a service which aggregates and organises all social accounts.
- BorisMelnik 11y agoCool - just curious (not playing devils advocate, I really don't know) how does this do a better job than say a Google or Twitter search?
- yask123 11y agoYou can't get all social profile links with google for celebrities : Eg: See this https://www.google.co.in/#q=barack+obama https://www.google.co.in/#q=barack+obama Also for doing user searches in social websites, I don't get the results I am looking for: Eg for query "Barack Obama" from Facebook graph api: I get : { "data": [ { "name": "Chi Linh Bui", "id": "248865755297304" }, { "name": "Barack Obamanana", "id": "318956448258150" }, { "name": "Barack Obamalad", "id": "1378793772451152" }, { "name": "Barack ObamaObama", "id": "239939292867248" }, .... Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbqmo5tzospcnsc/Screenshot%202015-11-09%2006.47.11.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbqmo5tzospcnsc/Screenshot%202015-...
- clooth 11y agoIt dies when I search with a name containing umlauts.
- yask123 11y agoIs that a celebrity name ?
- clooth 11y agoIt can be in a celebrity name. It's just a character that breaks the site.
- anonfunction 11y agoUmlauts are the two dots above a letter, quite common in German I believe.