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git-history is a tool for analyzing data scraped to a GitHub repository using SQLite.

2022

Tracking Mastodon user numbers over time with a bucket of tricks

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Mastodon is definitely having a moment. User growth is skyrocketing as more and more people migrate over from Twitter.

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Measuring traffic during the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival

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This weekend was the 50th annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival.

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Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival traffic on Saturday 15th October 2022 (via) It’s the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival this weekend... and its impact on the traffic between our little town of El Granada and Half Moon Bay—8 minutes drive away—is notorious. So I built a git scraper that archives estimated driving times from the Google Maps Navigation API, and used git-history to turn that scraped data into a SQLite database and visualize it on a chart.

# 16th October 2022, 3:56 am / projects, git-scraping, git-history, half-moon-bay

2021

Weeknotes: git-history, bug magnets and s3-credentials --public

I’ve stopped considering my projects “shipped” until I’ve written a proper blog entry about them, so yesterday I finally shipped git-history, coinciding with the release of version 0.6—a full 27 days after the first 0.1.

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git-history: a tool for analyzing scraped data collected using Git and SQLite

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I described Git scraping last year: a technique for writing scrapers where you periodically snapshot a source of data to a Git repository in order to record changes to that source over time.

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Weeknotes: git-history, created for a Git scraping workshop

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My main project this week was a 90 minute workshop I delivered about Git scraping at Coda.Br 2021, a Brazilian data journalism conference, on Friday. This inspired the creation of a brand new tool, git-history, plus smaller improvements to a range of other projects.

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