This is a quick Flask app for finding links between podcasters, a la the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game. It's a bit of nonsense that I hope will make people smile.
For the slightly longer description, see the about page.
This is just a simple Flask app that turns a list of podcasts and hosts into a graph, then uses Dijkstra's algorithm to find the shortest path between two hosts (if one exists). The code for Dijkstra is taken from Rosetta code, because I threw this together in a hurry.
Most of this is quite messy because I threw it together quickly. It's just a bit of fun, not a serious project.
If you want to expand the list of podcasts, you should edit data.json. Each podcast gets an entry of the form name: [list of hosts]; for example,
"Hello Internet": [
"Brady Haran",
"CGP Grey"
]Please keep the host names alphabetically ordered, and likewise the podcasts.
Currently I have all the Relay.FM and 5by5 shows, plus a few others. More are always welcome. :-)