About contacts.
Is there a way to automatically "harvest" the profile IDs (or even more) of people I interact with here on G+?
I am talking of:
- people in my circles
- people following me or collections of mine
- people in my communities
- people in communities I'm in or was in
- people I've discussed or interacted with in some respect
The best would be some kind of AI automatically harvesting their #SignalFlare info. ;-)
Any ideas?
Is there a way to automatically "harvest" the profile IDs (or even more) of people I interact with here on G+?
I am talking of:
- people in my circles
- people following me or collections of mine
- people in my communities
- people in communities I'm in or was in
- people I've discussed or interacted with in some respect
The best would be some kind of AI automatically harvesting their #SignalFlare info. ;-)
Any ideas?
Wenn Du Dich beeilst mit der API https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/latest/people
ReplyDeleteGoogle Takeout will give you the names and G+ profile URLs when you export your G+ Circles.
ReplyDeleteAlan Bland Will those G+ profile URLs survive? The Vanity URLs are going apparently.
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ReplyDeleteYou can save the names and links to their profiles using Takeout Gerhard Torges but the links to their profiles will get deleted sooner or later, so it's not much better than simply a list of names.
ReplyDeleteHere's a good post by Peggy K, with a summary of what will happen, and links to web pages that include more detail
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The best you can do is ask your followers in a private post for their email adresses.
ReplyDeleteYou can search for terms like "where to find me" and limit the search to people you follow.
ReplyDeleteGerhard Torges: Nothing specific, though there are a few options.
ReplyDeleteIf you do a Google Data Takeout, and include contacts, you should get a list of profiles and their front pages. Those could, in theory, be scraped by automated tools (wget is an excellent one), and if the user has a pinned post with contact information, you will then have a local copy of that post as part of their profile page. I think the full text is captured, and not just the above-the-fold portion.... Yes. I've verified that just now looking at my own profile via the w3m console-mode browser.
Mind: you'll have to do some parsing of the downloaded contacts to find that information, but that should be automatable / scriptable.
You can ask people to submit information themselves. The easiest way to do this would probably be to create a new email address yourself for that specific purpose only, and post that to users you want to stay in contact with. They'd send an email, you'd have their email address. You might not get their Google+ address, which can be problematic, but at least you've sustained the contact.
Some sort of form is another option. Google Forms is actually pretty good, and you can easily set up an information capture tool with that, requesting (or automatically filling in) G+ profile data, etc. There are many other options.
Creating a mailing list or Groups-based system accomplishes this. A huge benefit of email lists is they give you the contact information directly. Create a "let's keep in touch" list and encourage people to sign up for it.
There are also numerous directories of people and groups being created. There is a registry on the G+MM sidebar. If you are comfortable with your information being made public you can post contact information there. At #PlexodusWiki there are the Google+ Notable Names Database (G+NNDB) and Google+ Notable Communities Database (G+NCDB). These are listings of people and G+ Communities (plus a few Collections and Pages) generally pointing to the old Profile link, and new blog, microblog, social, wiki, and feed links. I'm actively filling out a structured file of those and have over 300 names in G+NNDB. The process is tedious, but high-profile users and groups tend to be the glue around which communities re-form.
I am manually compiling lists of my contacts along similar lines. I've been opening up my circles starting with the highest-priority ones -- and am thanking my stars that's how I'd chosen to organise my Circles -- and looking for forwarding contacts. The last few lines of that file looks like:
74 Phillip Landmeier | category | bio | https://plus.google.com/103544866295733897476 | http://shuttersparks.blogspot.com/ | microblog | social | feed
75 Gretchen S | Locally Notable | bio | https://plus.google.com/102376799902430080799 | https://oda.dreamwidth.org/ | microblog | social | feed
76 name | category | bio | G+ profile | blog | microblog | social | feed
(That's with vim line-numbering enabled)
The last line shows the basic format. I replace the named elements with the values, as in the two entries above. Where I don't have information yet, I'm leaving the placeholder values. The file itself is pipe-delimited, and I have an awk script that processes this further, generally looking for RSS feeds from the other supplied elements, automatically, and outputting a number of useful formats (HTML, Markdown, MediaWiki, OPML, etc.) for further use.
ReplyDeleteAn OPML file of names and descriptions should be a useful general resource. That's going to have a list of G+ names or communities and where you can follow their current RSS/Atom feeds. I don't have that yet, but am aiming to be able to create this using the process above.
I figure I'll end up entering a few hundred entries myself, possibly. That's a worthwhile investment of my time, in my estimation.
I may further document how I'm doing this and post tools, later.
Kristin Moran The hashtag "SignalFlare" is specifically intended for this purpose.
ReplyDeletePeople can tag their posts themselves, or others can add this as a comment to the post. Either way works, and will allow those posts to be found.
You can use the hashtag within limited distribution posts (Circles, Collections, Communities) in which case they can be searched and found only by those with access to those distributions already. That is: members of the Circle, Collection, or Community.
Please remove that hashtag, you're polluting my script results. ;-)
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