mefi-deleted

MetaFilter deleted posts

Scrape MetaFilter to find deleted posts and turn them into a Jekyll blog.

The interesting code is all in src/tasks/mefi_deleted.js. That handles the MeFi fetching/parsing, finds the deleted posts, and outputs blog posts containing the results in mefideleted-blog/_posts. Subsequently, Jekyll runs to turn those posts into a static blog.

Usage

This is intended to run in GitHub Actions. See .github/workflows/workflow.yaml for all the magic there.

To run it locally, you’ll need both Node+Yarn and Ruby+Bundler no matter how much you wish it was only one or the other.

Setup
  $ yarn install
  $ cd mefideleted-blog && bundle install

Usage
   $ node cli.js deleted blue # find deleted posts and populate mefideleted-blog/_posts
   $ node cli.js deleted green # find deleted askme posts
   $ cd mefideleted-blog && bundle exec jekyll build # generate the blog

Created by

Zach Lipton

License

MIT