Scaling the HS Hackers Facebook Group

Re:Scaling the HS Hackers Facebook Group by aroman on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @10:27AM (#7970856)

If anyone is interested in how those stats at the bottom were generated, it was with a Graph API tool I wrote for the job. I would be happy to clean it up and release it as open source if anyone else would find it valuable.

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Re:Scaling the HS Hackers Facebook Group by glomph on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @02:58PM (#7972772)

That would be neat! I had been thinking of doing a similar thing but I was always too lazy.

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Re:Scaling the HS Hackers Facebook Group by aroman on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @03:02PM (#7972796)

I'll try to package it up into something useful then! In short, my system basically was just a highly parallelized graph crawler in node.js, which dumped into mongo for easy queries and analysis. I'll try to make it a bit more agnostic though.

One issue is that the Graph API for groups is in fact broken — it's request pagination system yields an inconsistent (and incomplete) data set. We've reported the bug[0], but I've been seeing reports of this for months.

I've actually been beginning to suspect some sort of deliberate crippling, though I haven't exactly been able to work out a motive :)

[0] https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/518983258224814/

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