# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 16
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/u4cn57a
@jason Re discovering who has recently mentioned you (probably the only way you'll find new followers) -- I have an idea of how to make this work for you and generally others in the same boat as you.
Btw, do you happen to be any good at coding in Go?
Anyway, i _think_ we can teach the search engine/crawler how to index mentions (we already parse them actually in our twt parser) and index those. Then you can easily search based on mentions.
@jason Re discovering who has recently mentioned you (probably the only way you'll find new followers) -- I have an idea of how to make this work for you and generally others in the same boat as you.
Btw, do you happen to be any good at coding in Go?
Anyway, i _think_ we can teach the search engine/crawler how to index mentions (we already parse them actually in our twt parser) and index those. Then you can easily search based on mentions.
@prologic I don't know how to code in go or anything really. Not even really know how to do html and css only basic things.
@prologic Yeah I don't know how I am going to know if someone wants to talk with me but I guess for now twtxt works.
@prologic There are so many wrong mentions out there, you probably want be able to nornalize them all to the correct canonical form.
@lyse I never seen anyone mention wrong
@jason Nearly every day I see some mention URLs that are off. It happens regularly with mine and the most recent example is https://twtxt.net/conv/7g3ezoa :-) Especially yarnd is causing some trouble in this field as it appears to me.
@lyse Auestion is how we can normalize?
@lyse Auestion is how we can normalize?
@prologic I reckon there needs to be a manually crafted mapping in place. This two column table of broken to normalized feed URL could be maintained somewhere where people could enter new entries. Maybe some approval process would be necessary as well. In the beginning a simple CSV file in the search engine repo should do.