I don’t think so. See Vaniver’s comment which describes what the site is doing. I don’t know the process, but maybe you can submit a DB request to the trike apps team for this data.
The following is what I had in mind for that section:
maybe you can submit a DB request to the trike apps team for this data.
There is an API but I think it doesn’t have the ability to do everything that we’d like it to. See this issue as an example of a missing feature.
But if you have the ability, building that feature and submitting it as a pull request is better than doing it the long way (since it also helps everyone else who wants to do that sort of thing in the future).
A feature that allows anyone on the ’net to bang on your backend database is not something to be taken lightly :-)
I think LW first needs a coherent API spec, then a framework (including thing like auth tokens, rate limiters, etc.), and only then specific abilities to e.g. ask for all comments of a particular user.
You are probably right. I would assume that I can also get the post information from this: http://lesswrong.com/r/all/recentposts/ . A graph with this much data probably wouldn’t be useful as it would be too busy. I will look into writing something else to get this data into a usable format.
Edit: Your link only has the main comments, not the discussion ones. I’m not sure what to get all the comment information from.
Any chance at getting all comments and posts on one of those graphs? For all users over time? I’d like to see which posts score >=5 and <5 karma..
I don’t think so. See Vaniver’s comment which describes what the site is doing. I don’t know the process, but maybe you can submit a DB request to the trike apps team for this data.
script should be able to be run on http://lesswrong.com/comments/ without much modification...
Yeah, I recommend against scraping LW that way instead of making a DB request / building a page that makes that DB request.
Can one? In general, is there an available (and working) API to LW?
The following is what I had in mind for that section:
There is an API but I think it doesn’t have the ability to do everything that we’d like it to. See this issue as an example of a missing feature.
But if you have the ability, building that feature and submitting it as a pull request is better than doing it the long way (since it also helps everyone else who wants to do that sort of thing in the future).
A feature that allows anyone on the ’net to bang on your backend database is not something to be taken lightly :-)
I think LW first needs a coherent API spec, then a framework (including thing like auth tokens, rate limiters, etc.), and only then specific abilities to e.g. ask for all comments of a particular user.
You are probably right. I would assume that I can also get the post information from this: http://lesswrong.com/r/all/recentposts/ . A graph with this much data probably wouldn’t be useful as it would be too busy. I will look into writing something else to get this data into a usable format.
Edit: Your link only has the main comments, not the discussion ones. I’m not sure what to get all the comment information from.
maybe 3 months worth; for the past 3 years? 12 graphs in total; showing the trend...?
I figured that with the zoom it would be able to be use-able. but separate graphs work too.