FT Labs
Everything here is MIT licensed and unsupported unless otherwise stated. Use at your own risk.
London, United Kingdom
Pinned Repositories
big-ft
A view of the FT homepage designed for non-interactive video walls and billboards
fastclick
Polyfill to remove click delays on browsers with touch UIs
fruitmachine
View rendering engine
ftcolumnflow
A polyfill that fixes the inadequacies of CSS column layouts
ftdatasquasher
Data compression and decompression support, packing base64 into UTF8 high and low bytes
ftellipsis
Multi-line ellipsis made possible
ftscroller
FTScroller is a cross-browser Javascript/CSS library to allow touch, mouse or scrollwheel scrolling within specified elements, with pagination, snapping and bouncing support.
Hancock
A Node.js module for determining a similarity between handwritten signatures.
perf-widget
transcription-service
A Node.js server that accepts audio/video files and transcribes the content
FT Labs's Repositories
ftlabs/text-summarization-experiment
Experiment on text summarization techniques and exploring Tensorflow.
ftlabs/alignment
exploring Go, aligning some text, looking for poetry, for faux-artistic reasons
ftlabs/email-signatures
A Chrome Extension that automagically adds links from RSS feeds to the end of emails sent in the Gmail web client
ftlabs/cite-n-snap
ftlabs/barcode
An API endpoint to gather all of the main images used in FT articles from a provided date range, the last 24 hours for example, and squash them (width wise) to give one condensed image that represents the news. The final result looks similar to a coloured barcode.
ftlabs/assistant-authenticator
A service for ephemerally linking an FT user to a Google Home device
ftlabs/boilerplates
some simple, no-nonsense examples of things
ftlabs/chars-to-wav
Letters in, sounds out
ftlabs/Falcon-Snippets
Content scripts for manipulating FT content on the Falon ft.com site
ftlabs/FT-Labs-AWS-Archives
A PoC for having AWS OCR the entire FT Digital Archive
ftlabs/alignmentJS
porting some of the GOLANG alignment work into JS
ftlabs/archive-banners
a slice of history: all the banners
ftlabs/archive-tiling
Exploration of delivering the FT Archives with map tiles.
ftlabs/archives-at-home
Micro-exploration into distributing the OCRing of the FT Digital Archives across a multitude of users.
ftlabs/audio-purger
Purge an audio file (TTS) and associated metadata
ftlabs/barcode-year
A year of FT News presented as a barcode
ftlabs/catchup
exploring generic taxi pack -esque functionality
ftlabs/Connected-FT
Web push, from me, to you. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-daaaaa...
ftlabs/cpp-extension
ftlabs/elastic-archives
XML -> Elasticsearch
ftlabs/key-phrases
General backend for extracting key phrases from a group of elements.