AntiFreeze's Journal: slashfans.sh

This is for all you ego-maniacs out there who want to keep track of your fans:

#!/bin/bash

if [ x$1 != x ]; then
echo -n "$1's Slashdot Fans:"
lynx -dump http://slashdot.org/~$1/fans/ | grep friends\ | wc -l
else
echo -n "AntiFreeze's Slashdot Fans:"
lynx -dump http://slashdot.org/~AntiFreeze/fans/ | awk ' /\].*\(.*friends.*fans/ { gsub(/\[[^\]]*\]/, "") ; gsub(/\(.*/, "") ; print }' > fans.tmp
wc -l fans.tmp
diff fans.lst fans.tmp
mv fans.lst fans.old
mv fans.tmp fans.lst
fi

Now just edit to your heart's content to keep track of your friends or foes or freaks.

Self explanatory, but what the hell? It'll print out the number of fans, and alert you to any new fans or people who removed themselves from your fans list (as both Claudia and LadyGuardian just did to me :[ ). If you call it with a name (./slashfans.sh gmhowell) it'll tell you how many fans George has. Perfect for tracking and comparing your status to that of others.

Happy egoing.

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P.S. Sorry if it's a little hard to read, I couldn't get the spacing right.

P.P.S. In line 4 (the lynx -dump line), friends\ is the same as "friends ", namely, the word friends with a space after it. That space is _important_.

P.P.P.S. The second lynx -dump line goes _all_ the way until "> fans.tmp", do not truncate it like slashdot has.

zoo weirdness

[slothdog]

as I noted in my journal, there's been some weirdness in the zoo today. for one, if I try to modify my relationship to anyone, I just get an apache error. also, it appears that a bunch of people that I'd previously marked as friends suddenly became "unfriended" today.... (and one person dropped off my fans list.) strange things are afoot....

Re:zoo weirdness

[heliocentric]

Then there are those that I wish to unfriend and can't... I get their journals and their down mods of my friends that they consider foes.

I'm impressed!

[EnlightenmentFan]

open-source slashcode--awesome!