Ok, after posting my last post, I did some googling and found some other LJ members also interested in social network analysis type stuff. One of them is phyxeld who posted a perl script to get users with common interests here. Careful, the code is scary (perl makes my eyes bleed.) Anyways, I wrote some CGI scripts to wrap around it and put it up on the web. Check it out here. WARNING: I’ve modified the script to sleep for 3 seconds after every interest query, so if you’ve got 100 interests, it’s going to take AT LEAST 300 seconds to run. So open it up in another tab/window, and let it go. If there are any problems with running the scripts, let me know. It’s kinda fun to mess around with, but I really wish LJ offered a web services interface or something to get interests and other info.
