Hi folks, Right now, when you contribute to many sites, your contributions are effectively locked up -- there are often no export tools or unrestricted APIs to get access to your own content. There are exceptions, but I'd like to make them the rule. To this end, I've been working on this for a bit:
https://freeyourstuff.cc/ It's a (fully free/libre) tool for downloading your content contributions to supported websites (currently Yelp, Amazon.com, IMDB, TripAdvisor) and, optionally, publishing those contributions under an open license. To publish on freeyourstuff.cc, you need an account on the site. The main tool is a Chrome/Chromium extension [1]. This makes it easy to download the user's contributions without the need to request/store credentials. It's limited to text contributions right now, e.g., the text of all your Yelp reviews. I'm looking for early alpha-tester feedback (data may be lost during this test). To install the extension, please follow the instructions on: https://github.com/eloquence/freeyourstuff.cc I would also welcome collaborators. If you'd specifically like to add support for a new site, please see https://freeyourstuff.cc/plugins for the plugin developer documentation. Finally, I've tried to make it easy to mirror content liberated with this tool. Would you be able to run a mirror? If so, please follow the instructions here: https://freeyourstuff.cc/mirrors I look forward to your feedback, here, privately, or on the dedicated listserv for this project: http://www.freelists.org/list/freeyourstuff I can also be found on #freeyourstuff on irc.freenode.net. :) Warmly, Erik [1] I haven't looked into what it would take to port it to Firefox yet. Firefox has support for JavaScript extensions similar to Chrome, but there might be issues with the security model. Worth investigating. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
