Social scraping

I recently looked into using the various APIs to grab for site visits from Google Analytics, fans from Facebook and Followers from Twitter. To get the data to scrap every  hour, I used a .NET “cache expire” event to grab the latest feeds. Javascript perioidically grabs the next feed item from a .NET handler.

For the APIs;

• http://apiwiki.twitter.com
• http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api
• http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/

For the sake of this demo I have omitted the Google Analytics stats – as I don’t want to share stat info of all my employers clients – the result can be seen here.

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