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syntonic_comma

Friends List Usericon Collage meme

Feb 13, 2005 15:34

redaxe's journal mentioned a Friends List Usericon Collage meme, but the server is overloaded (no surprise there -- so overloaded that redaxe didn't even include the URL to it) so I can't even see what it's about. But the notion got me thinking, and I did some Unix shell coding to retrieve URLs for all my friends' userpics. Seeing them all in one place ( Read more... )

userpics, html, lj

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ice_hesitant May 14 2005, 23:32:23 UTC

Cool. Had to install csh, install lynx, and make a symbolic link to /usr/bin/lynx from /usr/local/bin/lynx to get it to work, but it worked well once I did.:)

ice_hesitant May 14 2005, 23:46:13 UTC

Actually, not so much. It says I have 19 friends, while my profile says I have 24 mutual ones. Hmmm.

you found a bug 8-( syntonic_comma May 15 2005, 14:18:36 UTC

It's not getting your whole friends list. I'll look into it.

Re: you found a bug 8-( syntonic_comma May 15 2005, 14:59:52 UTC

Fixed!

You've got some unavailable accounts in your friends list. These show up in a text browser with [DEL: :DEL] sequences around them. I was looking for ":" characters to signal the ends of sections on the account-info page, so when I got to a line containing a strike I stopped collecting names. (You'll see that the remaining friends collected come from other sections of your info page -- Communities, Feeds.)

I've added the friends from the "Also friend of" section. I don't think this section was part of the info page when I wrote the script.

My code works or it's free!

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