Mycrocosm scripts!
Check this out. Tim, a Mycrocosm user has written a script to automate updating his graph that displays some email statistics. The script uses the twitter api to mycrocosm. Which does make me reconsider whether I need to continue working on the mycrocosm api any more – in which case i would have to deal with rate limiting and all that – or just let twitter handle that part.
I had also always hoped that the text based syntax in mycrocosm would make it easy to write this kind of stuff without me having to provide a separate api, so I take this as a good sign.
Once again here’s the link to Tim’s mycromail script
Thanks Tim!
Thanks for the blog post!
One note — Mycrocosm seems to occasionally process things sent to the Twitter API twice — I’ll see two lines with the same label and count appear in my mail chart, or also when I post things to my caffeine chart (which isn’t controlled by a script).
tim smith
November 23, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I’m seeing the same duplication on posts. It’s worst with my script-generated posts. Here’s a timeline of a test run I just did:
10:19 – test run script, sends 4 messages.
10:21 – reload data set, see 1 copy of each message; delete the test data.
~10:30- reload data set, test data still not there.
10:40 – reload data set, see two copies of one post. delete.
10:41 – reload, see one new copy of a different post. delete.
Ryan Forsythe
December 9, 2008 at 2:49 pm
@tim and ryan thanks for reporting, i wasn’t able to reproduce this before leaving (see latest post) – though i didn’t have much time to dig into it. Does it happen everytime? Sorry about this. I am going to try reducing the rate at which i check the twitter account, that may help but i cant really test how effective it will be at the moment.
Yannick
December 11, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Yannick: it happens most of the time. It’s not regular, though — sometimes I’ll get 3 or 4 copies of a post, while another post that was sent at the same time only gets posted twice.
Ryan Forsythe
December 15, 2008 at 8:28 pm