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If this is widely adopted, it would be quite straightforward to crawl and graph a network of all the blogs in the ring. This would be really cool! Search sucks
by albertgoeswoof 7y ago
If this is widely adopted, it would be quite straightforward to crawl and graph a network of all the blogs in the ring. This would be really cool! Search sucks for finding good blogs in my experience.
Is there anything in the output html that would make this crawling easier to do?
RSS seems to persist because it’s on by default on almost all blogging platforms. How can we make this into an on by default option in the main static site generators and CMS’s?
- anigbrowl 7y agoHow would you go about getting that information on existing blogs? A great many blogs have 'blogrolls' but scraping that information seems far more time-consuming than it ought to be due to the variations in layout etc. etc.
- Mediterraneo10 7y agoWordpress-based blog proprietors are likely to maintain their blogrolls using Wordpress’s Links feature. Because this is a standard module that produces more or less the same output across all WP blogs, it is rather easy to parse for and scrape. However, if this Show HN tool is for static-site generator-based blogs, then individual bloggers may have more leeway on how to format their blogrolls.
- anigbrowl 7y agoI'll give that a look. It's been a while since I checked into it but I've been wanting to map a particular blog network for a long time so that sounds very helpful.
- dosy 7y agoWhat about just asking people to submit their favorite blogs, collecting the thousand or so links and then release them in a directory ranked by submissions, or in a weekly newsletter with like 5 links? Oh hey I made that: https://forms.gle/QKdHTMJEXroyYj386 https://forms.gle/QKdHTMJEXroyYj386
- spullara 7y agoThis post could just as easily been from 1999 sadly.