I’m super appreciative of all the work that @terb historically put in with the covers threads, and doing a year-end round up of stats related to all the posts. That’s a ton of work, however, and he mentioned it was something he wouldn’t be able to continue doing going forward. I totally get it.
I’ve been playing around with a means to index those videos, to provide kind of an ongoing synopsis of all the videos, submitters, posts, etc
Just running this locally for now (and it’s very gentle with reads on the thread - keeps a local cache, only grabs new data when updating, and rate-limits when it does) but if there’s interest - and the powers that be at BassBuzz are cool with it - I might look for a way to share it.
Anyway, I thought it was pretty cool. Here’s a demo:
This is freakin awesome. How much free time do you have? Between playing, building a bass, and setting this up, I feel like I’m wasting a lot of time somewhere. I agree and to get some eyeballs on this, @Gio or @JoshFossgreen we need a ruling.
Heh, it’s pretty easy - just get way behind on actual work!
I should mention, too:
There are two main components here. A python script to update the data, and the result of the python script, a static html page. I could post the static html somewhere and anyone could access the index. The updates would only get pulled whenever the script is manually run, so no risk of DOS’ing the forum.
That is very cool and would probably be a really useful tool for people. It should be possible to schedule the data pulls automatically as well, to save any need for manual intervention.
This is amazing! Just the other day I was thinking that as nice as the Post Your Covers thread is, it’s a shame that posts get lost to the scroll pretty quickly. And a forum search isn’t designed for looking specifically for videos. Having an independent index is a really nice addition. And it should really make those year-end roundups easier too!
If you don’t mind a couple of notes, if this is something you’re going to continue to develop features for:
It would be neat to be able to link to a specific set of search results on your index. Like being able to drop a “here’s every cover of ZZ Top” link or something.
And the search is a bit hyper-literal. A search for “pink floyd hey you” returns no results, but searching for “pink floyd - hey you” returns 3 results.
Very cool stuff, I’ll definitely be coming back to it!
I also enabled deep links, and the URL now updates dynamically to reflect various parameters. So if you have the content you want in the current view, just copy the URL. Such as:
Wow @fennario this is great. Thanks, great job! I can see that I need to put in some more work to learn some more covers. It’s starting to be a long way to the top.
and would probably be a really useful tool for people. It should be possible to schedule the data pulls automatically as well, to save any need for manual intervention.
- good luck! lol
