https://github.com/chromakode/been

Life stream collector.
https://github.com/chromakode/been

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Life stream collector.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/chromakode/been
• Owner: chromakode
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2011-04-12T09:48:08.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-01-12T07:14:50.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-31T14:36:35.226Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 268 KB
• Stars: 125
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
![been](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chromakode/been/master/art/logo.png)

Been is a minimalistic life stream archiver and aggregator. It fetches *events* from a set of *sources*, such as GitHub commits, reddit comments, and tweets, logging them in a *store* (couchdb or redis).

Been was designed with a companion web interface, [wake](https://github.com/chromakode/wake), to form a simple website engine. In addition to online feeds, been can read markdown files out of a local directory or git repository, serving as the data backend of a blog website.

Been is small, general purpose, and hackable. Left its own devices, been provides a persistent and centralized store of often transient web activity. This can be useful for personal queries and statistical analysis.

The name "been" is a shortening of "where I've been" / "what I've been up to".

### origin story

As I prepared to join reddit in 2010, Jeremy Edberg advised me to update my website, since I wouldn't likely find time to do so afterward. *Been* and *wake* were my attempt to make a website that would update itself in my coming absence.

Been was also inspired by David Cramer's excellent [Lifestream WordPress plugin](http://www.enthropia.com/labs/wp-lifestream/).