Building my own content discovery tool: Work in progress

This is going to be a flex! :)

I spent this Sunday afternoon getting back to some Hive data extraction using Python.

I had wanted to build something like my own content discovery for some time. I find the current content discovery solution too blunt for my liking.

So to do that, I will need data directly from the Hive blockchain.

At this stage, I am able to download the records comprising original posts according to block numbers. A good start!

I am pretty happy with the progress so far, as the picture below shows.

What do I plan to do? I am planning to comb through 7 days of posts, and pick out posts that are likely worth reading in terms of topics of my interest. For that, I would have to try some text-mining magic.

I believe that there are many Hivers who are writing posts that I had been missing out. Having my own depository of posts would be great for accessing them!

Watch this space! I will report my progress along the way.