Question thread #32

[pauamma]

It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

Comments

[pseudomonas]

I've been doing some analysis of profile-interests using FOAF files (which I'm happy to share when I've written it up a bit) - at the moment I'm just using my friends-of-friends, but is there a route by which I could slurp down all publicly available FOAF files without spidering the whole lot one-by-one?

[denise]

Hm. I don't think there's any better way to do it, alas.

[pseudomonas]

Hmm. Is there a comprehensive list of users which I could sample randomly? Alternatively, would a 'download all foaf, gzipped-and-cached' be a useful script for me to write for DW to host?

[denise]

I think exor674 did something like that once. Let me ping her to this thread!