/crowdfounding

Collection of scripts and config files to record the evolution of a crowdfounding project

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crowdfounding

This collection of scripts and config files may help putting in place a system to record the evolution of a crowdfounding project (e.g. Kickstarter, Ulule).

It's not a system that will directly help you detect events in the project, like EB liberation. It's rather like Kictracker, but with a temporal granularity as fine as you wish (e.g. every 5 min).

As of now, I haven't (yet) made any effort to make the system easily re-usable. So you need to hack a bit by yourself.

Technical prerequisites (in the current state)

For realtime recording of information:

  • bash shell script interpreter
  • curl command line utility, to send HTTP requests at Kickstarter or Ulule
  • jq command line utility, to extract useful information from the response sent back by Kickstarter or Ulule
  • logstash deamon to inject data in the database
  • Elasticsearch 2 database

For data exploration:

  • Kibana 3
  • or R

Operating System

  • developed under Mac OSX
  • should work as is under Linux
  • might require some minor adaptations for Windows