I'm a Junior year undergraduate student pursuing B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Patna. This summer, I spent coding in Google Summer of Code with FOSSASIA organization.

I'm a Junior year undergraduate student pursuing B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Patna. This summer, I spent coding in Google Summer of Code with FOSSASIA organization.

In the previous blog post, I discussed how to fetch the URLs for Twitter videos in parts (.ts extension). But getting a video in parts is not beneficial as the loklak users have to carry out the following

The primary web service that loklak scrapes is Twitter. Being a news and social networking service, Twitter allows its users to post videos directly to Twitter and they convey more thoughts than what text

There are many URL shortening services on the internet. They are useful in converting really long URLs to shorter ones. But apart from redirecting to a longer URL, they are often used to track the people

About Kaizen Harvester Kaizen is an alternative approach to do harvesting in loklak. It focuses on query and information collecting to generate more queries from collected timelines. It maintains a queue

As elastic.io mentions, Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of solving a growing number of use cases. But in many setups, it is not possible to manually install