https://github.com/claudiob/myspacerobot

Python bot to cross-recommend MySpace artists based on correlated friendships
https://github.com/claudiob/myspacerobot

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Python bot to cross-recommend MySpace artists based on correlated friendships

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/claudiob/myspacerobot
• Owner: claudiob
• Created: 2009-01-21T23:03:24.000Z (almost 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2009-04-17T14:50:29.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-05T13:27:20.604Z (17 days ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 125 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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README

        
# 2009 - Claudio Baccigalupo

# Examples:

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# > python myspace/profile.py 270977337

# Shows the profile of neurain

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# > python myspace/friends.py -m 1 -q 1 270977337

# Lists the friends of neurain

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# > python myspace/top_friends.py -m 1 -q 1 270977337

# Lists the ranked top friends of neurain

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# > python myspace/recommend.py -m 1 -q 1 270977337

# Returns recommendations among friends of neurain

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# > python myspace/directory.py

# Automatically runs 3-ties recommendations for every MySpace musician

# 09.04.13 Completed directory to automatically recommend artist:

#          - removed CAPTCHA thanks to the new "No more CAPTCHA" feature

#          - added min_common number of friends to recommend an artist

# 09.04.09 Added a directory function to complete the loop:

#          - gets the directory of musicians from MySpace

#          - runs the recommender on each of them

#          Corrected code for new version of MySpace friends page

#          Separated artist IDs from NAMEs in the cache files

# 09.01.31 Added more functions to recommend related artists:

#          - top_friends.py extracts the top friends of a MySpace profile

#          - recommend.py connects top friends that do not know each other

# 09.01.29 Separated different functions into independent modules:

#          - friends.py scrape MySpace for the friends of a profile

#          - compose.py send a message to a MySpace profile

#          To do: Ctrl Break to stop threaded functions

#          To do: Add profile.py, bestfriends.py, recommend.py

#          To do: Add a cron to schedule recommendations

# 09.01.26 Added threading model to speed up MySpace scraping.

#          Now scraping an artist like Bloc Party takes about 5 hours.

#          First recommendation system introduced.

#          No support for profile names yet 

# 09.01.22 First experiment with scraping MySpace to look for the closest

#          friend of a specific profile. Current limitations:

#          - No support for profile names, both because of Unicode and because

#            requires reading viewProfile page, more than viewFriends

#          - No complete check about friends being MySpace artists or not

#          - Limited friends of friends to those with <=1,000 friends

#          - cache/ directory should exist in the folder

#          - No multithread, slow process since one URL is loaded at the time