David Blume commited on 2018-01-21 15:03:53
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This is a Python script run as a cronjob to read the TechCrunch article feed, |
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and decide which articles to include in its own feed. |
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-Here's a [blog post about it](http://david.dlma.com/blog/my-techcrunch-feed-filter). |
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+## The Problem |
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+TechCrunch was a great blog about innovation and entrepreneurship. As it grew, |
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+it published more articles than I cared to read. Like many savvy blog readers, |
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+I used a feed reader to present the latest articles to me, but TechCrunch was |
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+simply too profuse. |
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+## The Solution |
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+I created a service that'd visit TechCrunch's feed, and make note of who made |
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+which articles, what the articles were about, how many comments each article |
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+had, and how many Diggs2, Facebook likes and Facebook shares each article had. |
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+With that data, the service would determine the median, mean, standard |
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+deviation, and create a minimum threshold for whether the article merited |
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+being seen by me. |
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+I go into deeper detail in this [blog post about it](http://david.dlma.com/blog/my-techcrunch-feed-filter). |
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+Here's [the status page it generates](http://techcrunch.dlma.com/). |
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# To Do |
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