Show HN: A Twitter Account Scraper

[_wesley_]

I looked at it, and was completely confused at first. After reading the comments here, I realized it will save me a bunch of time. I'm working on launching a new product, and have compiled a list of 50 relevant blogs, and wasn't looking forward to going through them one-by-one to get twitter names.

Thanks!

[jwblackwell]

Glad you've found a use for it! drop me any feedback at james [at] jetrank.com if you find any issues or ways to improve it and I'll get on it.

[codva]

I dropped my blog URL into the app and it returned my Twitter link - so it works! I'm not sure I understand the utility though. I can't really think of a use case where I'd want to drop a bunch of URLs into an app just to get the associated Twitter accounts.

[jwblackwell]

It's aimed at SEOs and online marketers - have a list of blogs you want to contact to review your startup? Just paste them in and start following :)

[jwblackwell]

Hey guys - James the creator here. It's just a fun little tool I put together this morning so sorry for the lack of explanation.

It's aimed at anyone doing SEO or trying to reach out to a load of bloggers. It scrapes the pages you enter for common Twitter "follow me" type links and also matches up any Twitter accounts found with the domain name so it's a little more accurate than a thoughtless Twitter link scraper.

I didn't really expect this to make front page! I built it to help promote my startup; JetRank.com, which is a new SEO platform for online marketers, check it out! Feedback however honest is welcomed :)

[hluska]

You mentioned that it finds any twitter accounts that match the domain name. If that's true, it didn't find me - my twitter handle is @hluska...

[Tombar]

Would you provide a working example link?

Tried a couple links & this posts and coudn't understand how it works :S

[hluska]

I'm either horribly confused by what this app does, or I may have found a bug. I entered my blog URL (hluska.ca), which is on my Twitter profile and then submitted. All it returned was a link to my website.

I accessed your app using Safari on an iPhone. Possibly a mobile problem? Or, again, I might be horribly confused and you can chalk this whole comment up to pebcak...

[jwallaceparker]

The app looks at the html source code of the URL you provide and extracts any Twitter handles in it.

[tannerc]

Despite all the problems other users are running into I've already found this immensely useful. Thanks for sharing James.

[jwallaceparker]

Cool utility. Worked great for the URL I posted.

FYI, "work it's magic" should be "work its magic"

[jwblackwell]

Thanks! Quick grammar patch released :)

[quarterto]

Um. What does this do? Entering my blog and facebook.com return nothing.

[tmchow]

Visited your site, read and re-read the description and still had no idea what it did. Suggest you add a Bette e explanation or an example.

[ryanw]

You really need to explain (a) what to do (b) what is does. It's not clear now.