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(SearchMe?) Coverflow results, Django backend, Yahoo API, 45 minutes.

26 points by earle 19y ago

earle 19y ago
anyone got a URL categorization database? websense perhaps?
Readmore 19y ago
That is pretty awesome for 45 minutes. Although any search other than the first one didn't return pictures.
- earle 19y ago
  apparently got rate limited by websnappr with the traffic. cached requests seem to work.. 'paris hilton' seemed to be a popular request. heh.
stillmotion 19y ago
Very cool. Could launch that into a full blown social networking site and many people would be happy with it.
- earle 19y ago
  i actually think the whole concept is dumb. just spent 45 minutes doing it to prove a point. too bad websnappr is throttling requests for the preview images.
  - Readmore 19y ago
    Oh come on, you know that is an iPhone app waiting to happen. Coverflow search of the web on your iPhone! That's something people will want.
  - tlrobinson 19y ago
    In case anyone wants a simple way to take screenshots of webpages (on Ubuntu): aptitude install xvfb xwd firefox netpbm Xvfb :4 -screen 0 1024x1024x24 & sleep 1 firefox --display=:4.0 -width 1024 -height 1024 & sleep 10 firefox -remote "openURL(http://news.ycombinator.com/)" sleep 5 xwd -root -silent -display :4.0 | xwdtopnm | pnmcut 1 125 800 600 | pnmtojpeg > screenshot.jpg Of course these commands can be automated in your language of choice. The only problems: firefox opens a new tab by default, so you can't close old ones; and there's no way to find out when a page is done loading.
bprater 19y ago
Gorgeous, I love it.
- ks 19y ago
  Yes. Cool use of Javascript. I thought it was Flash until I looked at the source
  - tlrobinson 19y ago
    JavaScript is way more capable than people give it credit... http://tlrobinson.net/misc/3d.html http://tlrobinson.net/misc/3d.html
raju 19y ago
Wow! Thats pretty cool. The website, and the fact that you pulled it off in 45 minutes. Great job earle.
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axod 19y ago
Site down? (404)
mosburger 19y ago
This would be especially cool in an application like Google's image search. And @Readmore above... this definitely has a lot of potential as a mobile device app, and everyone knows the mobile internet is growing fast!

26 points by earle 19y ago

earle 19y ago

anyone got a URL categorization database? websense perhaps?

Readmore 19y ago

That is pretty awesome for 45 minutes. Although any search other than the first one didn't return pictures.

earle 19y ago
apparently got rate limited by websnappr with the traffic. cached requests seem to work.. 'paris hilton' seemed to be a popular request. heh.

stillmotion 19y ago

Very cool. Could launch that into a full blown social networking site and many people would be happy with it.

earle 19y ago
i actually think the whole concept is dumb. just spent 45 minutes doing it to prove a point. too bad websnappr is throttling requests for the preview images.
- Readmore 19y ago
  Oh come on, you know that is an iPhone app waiting to happen. Coverflow search of the web on your iPhone! That's something people will want.
- tlrobinson 19y ago
  In case anyone wants a simple way to take screenshots of webpages (on Ubuntu): aptitude install xvfb xwd firefox netpbm Xvfb :4 -screen 0 1024x1024x24 & sleep 1 firefox --display=:4.0 -width 1024 -height 1024 & sleep 10 firefox -remote "openURL(http://news.ycombinator.com/)" sleep 5 xwd -root -silent -display :4.0 | xwdtopnm | pnmcut 1 125 800 600 | pnmtojpeg > screenshot.jpg Of course these commands can be automated in your language of choice. The only problems: firefox opens a new tab by default, so you can't close old ones; and there's no way to find out when a page is done loading.

bprater 19y ago

Gorgeous, I love it.

ks 19y ago
Yes. Cool use of Javascript. I thought it was Flash until I looked at the source
- tlrobinson 19y ago
  JavaScript is way more capable than people give it credit... http://tlrobinson.net/misc/3d.html http://tlrobinson.net/misc/3d.html

raju 19y ago

Wow! Thats pretty cool. The website, and the fact that you pulled it off in 45 minutes. Great job earle.

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axod 19y ago

Site down? (404)

mosburger 19y ago

This would be especially cool in an application like Google's image search. And @Readmore above... this definitely has a lot of potential as a mobile device app, and everyone knows the mobile internet is growing fast!