Hey folks, just wanted to make a post to update a couple things you will see from PizzagateBot and get some feedbacks since its been active for 30 days now and I have some free time this week.
Improvements:
1.) Added function to verify that page found is actually valid by opening the page and finding the original link. Sometimes I would get results that were searched properly quoted but got ignored so you may of clicked on a post link and were not able to find the link or how it was related.
2.) Added function to get the post date and include in table column PostDate.
3.) Added function to determine if the link I found is from the OP or if it is from a comment, and, if from comment, post a link to it under table column LinkOrigin.
Here is an example for your reference - https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1755477/8598437
Feedbacks:
Appreciate any feedbacks, but specifically looking to answer these questions...
1.) I can make pizzagatebot do anything you can do with a web browser. Is there anything PG research related that you find yourself doing repetitively that you'd like to see automated?
2.) Is there anything you would consider broken at the moment?
3.) Anything you don't like in particular about the results? (if you find a bad result, please reply to the comment instead of just downvoating, I will look into it)
4.) What search engine do you use, besides Google, to research PG? I'm going to do side-by-side comparison next.
Thanks and cheers!
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ThePuppetShow ago
You rock!
Can you have it search out additional social media accounts if someone posts a social media account in the OP? Or would it be too hard to verify you have the same person?
Edit: Thinking about it, that sounds like an impossible task. How about searching out social media accounts from an email address?
PizzagateBot ago
I don't know anything about social media. I've been on the front lines of IT for the past decade and I still have never registered a myspace/facebook/twitter/etc. I'm old fashioned and wan't nothing to do with that mess so I'm ignorant to the inner workings.
Cursory google search shows there this a service like this https://www.social-searcher.com/ and http://com.lullar.com/ but the bot would need to recognize names in text, I have tested that with NLTK to find proper nouns in text, which works pretty good, but I'm wondering how often does a new suspect come up that you need it to be automated.
If you use those search engines and end up coming with useful results manually, show me what you found and I can think about it.
Cheers!
ThePuppetShow ago
You're right, that would have been a good option 3 months ago. It's a little slow now with new names.