https://github.com/bertrandom/mefi-vs-youtube-comments

Compare Metafilter comments to Youtube comments side-by-side for hilarity
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Compare Metafilter comments to Youtube comments side-by-side for hilarity

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bertrandom/mefi-vs-youtube-comments
• Owner: bertrandom
• Created: 2012-11-27T09:44:30.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-12-12T04:57:48.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-04-17T14:00:29.142Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://comments.thatsaspicymeatball.com/
• Size: 242 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments

Pulls the most recent Metafilter comments and the most recent Youtube comments from the most popular videos and puts them side-by-side for hilarity.

I recently rewrote this in Ruby, the original which was written in PHP using the Symfony 1.0 framework and Yahoo Pipes can be found [here](https://github.com/bertrandom/mefi-vs-youtube-comments-legacy).

## Installation

Install the [feedzirra](https://github.com/pauldix/feedzirra) and mustache gems. 

	gem install feedzirra

	gem install mustache

	

Run `generate.rb`. If all goes well, `web/index.html` should contain the latest comments. After you've confirmed that worked, add the contents of `crontab` to your web user's crontab, changing the absolute path to wherever you install this to. This will update the page once per day.

	

If you're using Ubuntu 12.10, feedzirra may refuse to install. I had to do this:

	apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

  	git clone https://github.com/taf2/curb.git

	cd curb

  	apt-get install rake

    rake install

    rake package

    gem install ./curb-0.8.3.gem

    gem install feedzirra --pre

## References

[Original MeFi project](http://projects.metafilter.com/1393/Metafilter-comments-vs-Youtube-comments)

[MetaTalk post](http://metatalk.metafilter.com/16003/Metafilter-comments-vs-Youtube-comments)

[Freakonomics blog post](http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/04/10/can-5-improve-reader-comments/)