Block API Dictionary Builder

This project scans the blocks (gists) of d3 users. It uses the results of this form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VdDdycNuqJVw3Ik6-ZLj6v7X9g2vWlw_RCC3RCfD9-I/viewform

Then it scans all their gists, and extracts the results. There are two types of tasks you probably want to run:

scan all the users' gists
output the results, by API call to your local file system.

Setup

Clone this repo locally
Update the config.js file with:

your own github api token. You can read about getting tokens here: https://github.com/blog/1509-personal-api-tokens
your redis database connection details

You can run this from a local vagrant box by running:

vagrant up

The code will be available at /mnt/synced - be careful not to delete this folder, since it's effectively a symlink to your local copy. The box will have a redis server that will always run. You can ssh into the box by running vagrant ssh.

If you want to run locally:

npm install

make sure your redis server is running

Running

Scanning all users:

Make sure redis is running and then:

node src/queuer.js

Outputting results per API:

Make sure redis is running and then:

node src/filemaker.js

The results go into the api folder. There will be a file for each api call in d3, for example:

d3.svg.axis.json.

It will look like this:

{
  "api": "d3.svg.axis",
  "blocks": {
    "4215939": {
      "userId": "vlandham",
      "description": "Focus+Context via Brushing",
      "thumbnail": "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/vlandham/4215939/raw/9b1031ca53bbadcdfad590800d4f636d7079f682/thumbnail.png"
    },
    "69a97f937b6147e67edd": {
      "userId": "iros",
      "description": "d3.chart piebars",
      "thumbnail": ""
    }
  },
  "count": 4,
  "coocurance": {
    "d3.select": 4,
    "d3.format": 2,
    "d3.scale": 4,
    "d3.scale.linear": 3,
    "d3.svg": 4
  }
}

Results per user:

This does not require redis:

node src/runner.js someUserName

For example:

node src/runner.js mbostock The result goes into the output folder. See sample output there.

Note that the output format is smaller. It only shows the block ids and counts, no coocurance or block metadata. It's an older version of this script and I've kept it for fun.

Features that would be awesome:

[DONE] co-occurance of calls.
[FIXED] for some users we scan through most blocks, but not all. Try running with syntagmatic (232 out of 234 are scanned. No idea why and no time to debug atm.)
[NOT SURE WHAT I MEANT HERE]Non block scanning...
[DONZO!] Scanning many users at once

Contributions

Make an issue
Send a pull request

iros / blockscanner