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Ah I wish I had more than just a screenshot to show! Lurk works in a very similar way to Apricot from an end users point of view. The scraping of websites happe
by tuchsen 3y ago
Ah I wish I had more than just a screenshot to show! Lurk works in a very similar way to Apricot from an end users point of view. The scraping of websites happens in the background on the users device, with a bunch of scripts that it ships with to grab data from websites like Reddit and Twitter. You've lit a fire under me to finish though, it's been stuck at that 90% done threshold for too long now. It's just been good enough for me to use, but still way too buggy to release.
If you're scraping Youtube and relying on that index I guess it makes sense that I can't find my niche Youtubers (try "TattooedTraveller"). I don't know how much of an outlier I am in preferring smaller channels, but I would have appreciated a way to add a channel manually. I know that's a big ask though, and hell, don't waste your time on me I've got my own thing anyways :P.
- brianpk 3y agoOh, you totally can add a YouTube channel (or any other feed) manually - just paste the link into Apricot! For Tattooed Traveler, for example, paste in https://www.youtube.com/@TattooedTraveler https://www.youtube.com/@TattooedTraveler. As you can probably tell, I'm trying the "ship when still a little embarrassed" approach. It stings a bit, but it does get the product out the door...
- tuchsen 3y agoAh thanks for the tip! And FWIW I think you picked a great time to ship, it's really a great MVP.