tea.mathoverflow.net - Discussion Feed (Searching MO via the dumps) Sun, 04 Nov 2018 23:22:32 -0800 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.9 & Feed Publisher Akhil Mathew comments on "Searching MO via the dumps" (12635) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/903/searching-mo-via-the-dumps/?Focus=12635#Comment_12635 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/903/searching-mo-via-the-dumps/?Focus=12635#Comment_12635 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:14:57 -0800 Akhil Mathew Done. Thanks for the pointer: it does clean it up.

]]> Anton Geraschenko comments on "Searching MO via the dumps" (12634) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/903/searching-mo-via-the-dumps/?Focus=12634#Comment_12634 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/903/searching-mo-via-the-dumps/?Focus=12634#Comment_12634 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:44:59 -0800 Anton Geraschenko Very nice. If you decode the HTML entities, it will make the output more readable because the tags will be interpreted as HTML rather than as text.

]]> Akhil Mathew comments on "Searching MO via the dumps" (12633) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/903/searching-mo-via-the-dumps/?Focus=12633#Comment_12633 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/903/searching-mo-via-the-dumps/?Focus=12633#Comment_12633 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:22:36 -0800 Akhil Mathew Since a desire to do this has come up here on meta a few times before, I wrote a few short scripts to search through the database dumps and generate the answer/comment thread associated to it. So far I wrote three. One of them searches for comments with votes above a certain threshold (this is what I got for the threshold 40, for instance). Another searches for a given piece of text in MO (both posts and comments) and will display the associated threads. The last one lets you search for a given user and shows all threads in which he or she was involved.

If people find these are useful, I will be happy to improve or expand them. I should add the disclaimer that I am not a programmer and was just having fun, so they should not be taken too seriously.

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