[seqfan] Re: twitter-like features on OEIS

[Charles Greathouse]

It should be possible to make a script that scrapes the
keyword:changed|keyword:new search page to update a database that
would allow these.  I think seeing trending sequences would be cool --
at a first stab, this could be 'sequences which have been edited by
many people recently'.  Unfortunately this would only work for
sequences which have been approved, which limits its Twitter-like
speed.  I guess it could scrape /drafts as well.

Charles Greathouse
Analyst/Programmer
Case Western Reserve University

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Russ Cox <rsc at swtch.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:03 PM, N. J. A. Sloane <njas at research.att.com> wrote:
>> Dear Seqfans, Someone asked if the new OEIS has
>> any of the following twitter-like capabilities:
>> - following a contributor
>> - friending a sequence
>> - trending
>> - etc.
>>
>> I don't use twitter myself. Can the OEIS do these things?
>> If someone can tell me how, I will add a note to the
>> Welcome Page (which I am currently working on).
>
> At the moment, the OEIS doesn't do any of these things,
> which are all ways of saying "notify me when X happens"
> for some value of X.
>
> Russ
>
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