Scripting News: A blogroll lab

Friday June 28, 2024; 1:02 PM EDT

I wanted to see what was out there in blogrolls, so I wrote an app that started from my own blogroll, and looked for feeds I was subscribed to that also had blogrolls, following the conventions we outlined in March.#
It then starts at each of the blogrolls I found in my list, and did the same thing with them, until I ran out of lists to look at.#
And the whole thing runs again a few minutes later. #
It found a bunch of them, so then I threw together a simple user interface that lets you click on the title of a blogroll in a list in the left panel, and view the actual blogroll in the right panel. Here's a screen shot.#
Screen shot of the Blogroll Browser.#
You can see it at browser.blogroll.social.#
A caveat -- what you see here is just an experiment. I don't expect this app to be up for any period of time. It's here just to learn from. Part of a bootstrap perhaps.#
PS: Cross-posted on micro.blog.#

Last update: Friday June 28, 2024; 5:00 PM EDT.

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