I'm developing some kind of trend system for openmicroblogging like [1],[2],[3] for twitter. At first I will start to monitor identi.ca, but I'm interested to cover other instances like army.twitter.com.
Gnipcentral[4] provides a neat api for downloading all activity for a given time span. The downside is that it only provides links to the notices, so that I have to go back to identi.ca and download them one for one. This is of course not very efficient and puts unnecessary load to the identi.ca server. An other downside is that the gnip service is not provided for other laconi.ca instances. What I really like to see is the possibility to download a bulk of messages (say for 5 minute timespan) for a given timestamp e.g.: api/activity/200806090910.[xml,json] will include all notices from 2008-06-09 09:10 to 09:05. The first time the this bucket is accessed, a cache could be generated and then used for further requests. What do you think? Regards, Peter P.S.: I know that there is an full XMPP stream for identi.ca, but I like to cover other instances too and rely only on http requests. [1] http://www.twitscoop.com/ [2] http://twist.flaptor.com/ [3] http://twitturls.com/ [4] http://gnipcentral.com/ [5] http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgkhvp8s_3hhwdmdfb#retrieve_activity_for_a_publisher_n_minutes_ago _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
