BuzzFeed Open Lab
Archived projects from the BuzzFeed Open Lab for Journalism, Technology, and the Arts
San Francisco, CA
Pinned Repositories
big-picture
Loose Miscellany
buzzbot
🤖 Beep Boop Bop – I am BuzzBot; a facebook messenger bot for newsrooms
edgar-monitor
A module that processes new Edgar filings and sends out notifications
google-earth-3d-vr
A 3D VR HTC Vive environment exported from Google Earth for you to play with.
interactive-video-bot
A bot for making facebook live streams interactive
rss-puppy
A watchdog tool for monitoring RSS feeds
simple-slack-bot
A Slack bot that listens to slack channels for trigger phrases and responds to them.
thermografree
trolling-visualized
A cleaned up version of a particle emitter data visualization for BuzzFeed.
unwelcome-bot
A configurable twitter bot that should be used responsibly
BuzzFeed Open Lab's Repositories
buzzfeed-openlab/rss-puppy
A watchdog tool for monitoring RSS feeds
buzzfeed-openlab/buzzbot
🤖 Beep Boop Bop – I am BuzzBot; a facebook messenger bot for newsrooms
buzzfeed-openlab/big-picture
Loose Miscellany
buzzfeed-openlab/interactive-video-bot
A bot for making facebook live streams interactive
buzzfeed-openlab/thermografree
buzzfeed-openlab/trolling-visualized
A cleaned up version of a particle emitter data visualization for BuzzFeed.
buzzfeed-openlab/geotweets
Get tweets matching a search term and location
buzzfeed-openlab/twitter-pruner
identify who's hogging too much space in your twitter feed
buzzfeed-openlab/real-senate-floor
a twitter bot that generates fake pics of the senate floor
buzzfeed-openlab/sms-fortune-cookie
a playful project for exchanging fortunes w/ strangers
buzzfeed-openlab/sms-music-swap
sms bot for mediating music recs between strangers
buzzfeed-openlab/bz_analysis
buzzfeed-openlab/emotion-buddies
a trio of data-collecting, touch-sensitive stuffed animals
buzzfeed-openlab/h8db_ext
A demo of a chrome extension that highlights select vocabulary.
buzzfeed-openlab/press-freedom-bot
simple sms bot built off spreadsheet
buzzfeed-openlab/remote-watering-can
a watering can on one side of the planet waters a garden on the other
buzzfeed-openlab/shots-fired
buzzfeed-openlab/speakeasy
experimenting with collecting & exchanging audio snippets from anonymous phone calls
buzzfeed-openlab/starfish-cat
not sure if adorable, or horrifying
buzzfeed-openlab/story-hotline
playing & collecting audio stories over phone calls
buzzfeed-openlab/buzzfeed-openlab.github.io
buzzfeed-openlab/cali-edge-splash
splash page for California on the Edge
buzzfeed-openlab/embeddedcamera-hat
Who get’s to tell the stories in our communities? You can build a hidden camera accessory to help tell the real stories in your neighborhood.
buzzfeed-openlab/failing-pile-of-garbage
A chrome extension that replaces the text "BuzzFeed" with "Failing Pile of Garbage"
buzzfeed-openlab/glossy
audio annotation for webvr
buzzfeed-openlab/noisify
a Chrome extension for adding noise to your data trails
buzzfeed-openlab/recipe-swap
simple web app for random recipe exchanges
buzzfeed-openlab/region-captioner
Dense image captioning interface
buzzfeed-openlab/speakeasy-splash
splash page for SpeakEasy project
buzzfeed-openlab/sunrise-clock
a rotating 24-hr dial that changes the color of a lamp according to the likely color of the sky