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I have been using Reddit Check (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-check/mllceaiaedaingchlgolnfiibippgkmj?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dial

I have been using Reddit Check (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-check/mllceaiaedaingchlgolnfiibippgkmj?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-check/mllce...) for over a year and it's very nice. I love finding discussion on random websites I find. This extension appears to be better made and has more features. It's nice to see discussion on HN too. It does not work reliably. I clicked on a bunch of links from the HN front page. Reddit check did find that they had been posted to reddit before, but Kiwi did not. However all of those links had only been posted once, and had no discussion. Still it seems strange it would say they had never been posted before. It was also unable to find youtube videos that had been posted before. Youtube is terrible at unique URLs, and I don't blame it. However Reddit Check is able to find all the different places youtube videos have been posted. I found a link that had been posted to reddit hundreds of times. It only found 11 results. There was also an option for "fuzzy matches" which included a few more links to the exact same URL, but also links that had nothing to do with it. Reddit Check also has a problem where it only returns the first 25 results. Clicking on any of the links closes the menu, so you can't open many links in new tabs at once. This is also a problem with Reddit Check. It does not find http versions of https links. Also a problem with Reddit Check. Clicking on the "submit to reddit" option opened a submission page, but not with the URL in it. I tried to look at the code but it was all squished together. It does not appear possible to modify it anyway. Anyway none of these are dealbreakers. I will be using this extension alongside Reddit Check due to the extra features it has. I am concerned about sending so many requests to reddit every time I open a new tab though.

spenvo 11y ago
Terrific comment, thank you. First, I've un-minified the Chrome extension code (only added 2kb in size), and it will remain that way going forward. It will take up to an hour for it to propagate to the Chrome Web Store, but the Firefox extension code is un-minified currently : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kiwi-conversations/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kiwi-conversa... (thanks to their review process, which requires it not be minified). The Chrome code is also available on Github : https://github.com/sdailey/kiwi https://github.com/sdailey/kiwi As for the results vs Reddit check -- maybe Reddit check uses a home-rolled API that crawls more frequently than Reddit's official API? Could you either tweet me the specific links or reply to this comment?
- Houshalter 11y ago
  Some links that have been posted to reddit, but it can't see: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/july-2015/one-higgs-is-the-loneliest-number http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/july-2015/one-higgs-... https://medium.com/recreating-megaman-2-using-js-webgl https://medium.com/recreating-megaman-2-using-js-webgl http://calvertjournal.com/features/show/4458/owen-hatherley-postcards-landscapes-of-communism http://calvertjournal.com/features/show/4458/owen-hatherley-... https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection/ https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection/ (If you search reddit for any of these URLs it goes straight to where they have been posted.)
  - spenvo 11y ago
    Thanks. Maybe reddit's API filters out some results that have zero comments. I looked for an attribute in their API that would ask for all results but couldn't find anything. Also - I'd like to inspect Reddit Check's code but can't find an open-source repo https://www.reddit.com/dev/api#GET_search https://www.reddit.com/dev/api#GET_search
    - Houshalter 11y ago
      I looked at Reddit Check's background page and checked the network requests it was sending. It sends a request like this: https://www.reddit.com/api/info.json?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.symmetrymagazine.org%2Farticle%2Fjuly-2015%2Fone-higgs-is-the-loneliest-number https://www.reddit.com/api/info.json?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sy... Weirdly it seems to send the same request several times. And it should also use an &limit=100, so it gets 100 results instead of 25.
  - spenvo 11y ago
    These links turned out to be extremely valuable feedback. Reddit's response is formed differently for them (as opposed to what it gives 95% of the time). I'll have an update very soon. [Update: new version has pushed to Chrome -- Kiwi should be processing all Reddit results now. Firefox update will be pushed tonight.]

spenvo 11y ago

Terrific comment, thank you. First, I've un-minified the Chrome extension code (only added 2kb in size), and it will remain that way going forward. It will take up to an hour for it to propagate to the Chrome Web Store, but the Firefox extension code is un-minified currently : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kiwi-conversations/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kiwi-conversa... (thanks to their review process, which requires it not be minified). The Chrome code is also available on Github : https://github.com/sdailey/kiwi https://github.com/sdailey/kiwi As for the results vs Reddit check -- maybe Reddit check uses a home-rolled API that crawls more frequently than Reddit's official API? Could you either tweet me the specific links or reply to this comment?

Houshalter 11y ago
Some links that have been posted to reddit, but it can't see: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/july-2015/one-higgs-is-the-loneliest-number http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/july-2015/one-higgs-... https://medium.com/recreating-megaman-2-using-js-webgl https://medium.com/recreating-megaman-2-using-js-webgl http://calvertjournal.com/features/show/4458/owen-hatherley-postcards-landscapes-of-communism http://calvertjournal.com/features/show/4458/owen-hatherley-... https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection/ https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection/ (If you search reddit for any of these URLs it goes straight to where they have been posted.)
- spenvo 11y ago
  Thanks. Maybe reddit's API filters out some results that have zero comments. I looked for an attribute in their API that would ask for all results but couldn't find anything. Also - I'd like to inspect Reddit Check's code but can't find an open-source repo https://www.reddit.com/dev/api#GET_search https://www.reddit.com/dev/api#GET_search
  - Houshalter 11y ago
    I looked at Reddit Check's background page and checked the network requests it was sending. It sends a request like this: https://www.reddit.com/api/info.json?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.symmetrymagazine.org%2Farticle%2Fjuly-2015%2Fone-higgs-is-the-loneliest-number https://www.reddit.com/api/info.json?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sy... Weirdly it seems to send the same request several times. And it should also use an &limit=100, so it gets 100 results instead of 25.
- spenvo 11y ago
  These links turned out to be extremely valuable feedback. Reddit's response is formed differently for them (as opposed to what it gives 95% of the time). I'll have an update very soon. [Update: new version has pushed to Chrome -- Kiwi should be processing all Reddit results now. Firefox update will be pushed tonight.]