Hi Peter, In time, Gnip is going to be providing the full data feed for activities passing through their system. I don't know the timeframe, but it will be there. Personally, I don't think that adding an API to Identi.ca that mimics Gnip's API is a good use of time/resources. Evan's MMV. :P
--Steve On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Peter Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm developing some kind of trend system for openmicroblogging like > [1],[2],[3] for twitter. > At first I will start to monitor identi.ca, but I'm interested to cover other > instances like army.twitter.com. > > Gnipcentral[4] provides a neat api for downloading all activity for a > given time span. The downside is that it only provides links to the notices, > so that I have to go back to identi.ca and download them one for one. This is > of course not very efficient and puts unnecessary load to the identi.ca > server. An other downside is that the gnip service is not provided for other > laconi.ca instances. > > What I really like to see is the possibility to download a bulk of messages > (say for 5 minute timespan) for a given timestamp e.g.: > > api/activity/200806090910.[xml,json] > > will include all notices from 2008-06-09 09:10 to 09:05. The first time the > this bucket is accessed, a cache could be generated and then used for > further requests. > > What do you think? > > Regards, > Peter > > P.S.: I know that there is an full XMPP stream for identi.ca, but I like to > cover other instances too and rely only on http requests. > > > [1] http://www.twitscoop.com/ > [2] http://twist.flaptor.com/ > [3] http://twitturls.com/ > [4] http://gnipcentral.com/ > [5] > http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgkhvp8s_3hhwdmdfb#retrieve_activity_for_a_publisher_n_minutes_ago > _______________________________________________ > Laconica-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev > -- Steve Ivy http://redmonk.net // http://diso-project.org This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
