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API, especially for comments #227

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
(from Wei Dai)
"LW doesn't seem to provide a way to grab 400 comments at once"
"… Greasemonkey script for making recent comments easier to read? The main 
problem with it is that it's not very efficient (slow to load comments, and 
uses more bandwidth than it needs to). I think I can make it much more 
efficient if LW provides an API to return a list of comments given a list of 
comment IDs, which could just be in the same format as 
http://lesswrong.com/comments."

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Matthew.Fallshaw on 14 Sep 2010 at 12:52

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by wjmo...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2012 at 6:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by Matthew.Fallshaw on 3 Aug 2012 at 6:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
A variant on this: I would really like a way to export or dump all of my LW 
comments. For a couple reasons:

1. generic backup of my content (my archive system is good but won't catch 
everything)
2. easier searching of my comments (I contribute so much that when I want to go 
back and find a reference or previous discussion, as I do frequently, it can be 
a challenge to refind something since throwing 'gwern' into the search terms 
doesn't narrow things down all that much)
3. doing statistics on my comments (I've been building up a big dataset of 
personal metrics, and would like to be able to include # of LW comments per day 
and length of LW comments per day)

Right now, Wei Dai's script, while better than nothing, is imperfect. Aside 
from the wasted bandwidth, for my account, it's very slow compared to a 
database export, and I'm not sure I can actually grab all of my comments that 
way: I may simply not have enough RAM. (Not to mention that a giant HTML file 
isn't the best format to work with.)

It would be helpful if there was some sort of CSV or JSON export of all my 
comments. (Perhaps in a format like 'timestamp, user, comment ID, comment text, 
URL of parent comment/post, net karma, karma %, edited-or-not, # of replies'.)

Original comment by gwe...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2014 at 1:34