mause/tumblr_conn

Simple Tumblr Connection Analyser

Simple Tumblr Blog Connection Analyzer

Prologue

Please note, this is currently not functional.

Lots of changes and having to re-implement functionality whilst moving stuff from;

• Google App Engine -> Heroku
• Python 2.7 -> Python 3.3
• webapp -> tornado

Intro

Current implementation follows reblog trails from current user back to source. Hopefully, I will get the reblog_path_sink function in test_sink.py working sometime in the future.

Originally built for Google App Engine, on the Python 2.7 platform. Currently working towards having it run properly on Heroku, python-3.3.0.

As stated in requirements.txt;

• requests==1.1.0
• tornado==2.4.1

Implementation details

Using this as reference;

 * source
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 * reblogger
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 * another reblogger
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 * yet another
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 * blog from which we start

When I say follow to the source, I mean we are following from the blog specified, to the source; following the reblog trail.

When I say following to the sink, I mean we are traveling in the opposite direction; from the source out. This is obviously a far more expensive operation, as some posts may have thousands and thousands of blogs having reblogged them.

License

Copyright 2012 Dominic May

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Postscript;

• Had a bit of trouble with the Tumblr api complaining about invalid signatures; if you get the same thing, make sure you pass the resource_owner_secret argument to the requests_oauthlib.OAuth1 class in the callback