Topic: Tool to find users with similar favorites, and question about building a favorites dataset

Hi!

I've made a tool to find users with similar favorites! It's available here: http://finde6users.ddns.net. You enter your e6 username (case-sensitive), and if you're in my database it will list similar users. More details on this reddit post.

It's really a prototype for now, and I don't promise to keep it up indefinitely, but it can still be useful.

However, you're in my database only if you had at least 32 favorites with at least 90 score, at the time I collected my data.

Which leads me to my question: does anyone have a complete dataset listing favorites to share? Or know how to build one efficiently? For now I've been using a small subset, by calling /favorite/list_users.json on each post. But if I want every favorite, that would take months. So if there is another way, that would help a lot. It doesn't have to be up-to-date either.

Do you accept csv files?

KiraNoot said:
Do you accept csv files?

Sure! I'm not too picky on the file format.

Wow, this is way fun actually. The person I'm most similar to (if it's so ranked) is DeviantHorse lol. As expected. It's kind of weird to see someone with so many of the same favorites, but what a great way to find more of the things one likes!

Also hiekkapillu is in my list. Glad you have such good taste ;) I will add many of your favorites to my collection there's no General Grievous reaction image darn it

10/10 will go through the favorites -fav:aster_viridian of everyone in this list lol.

Aster_Viridian said:
Wow, this is way fun actually. The person I'm most similar to (if it's so ranked) is DeviantHorse lol. As expected. It's kind of weird to see someone with so many of the same favorites, but what a great way to find more of the things one likes!

Also hiekkapillu is in my list. Glad you have such good taste ;) I will add many of your favorites to my collection there's no General Grievous reaction image darn it

10/10 will go through the favorites -fav:aster_viridian of everyone in this list lol.

Thank you!

I don't think you can search for fav:user1 -fav:user2, unless there's a trick I'm not aware of. It ends up displaying all posts. You can, however, search for fav:user -votedup:anything if you have upvoted your favorites.

Does this tool still work, yes I know, 6 years. But doesn't hurt to ask.

legends said:
Does this tool still work, yes I know, 6 years. But doesn't hurt to ask.

It probably doesn't work anymore ):
Looking at the reddit post, it uses a database with only the most popular tags (and that was 6 years ago so it's def out of date)

Maybe the original code still works, but I don't think anyone here has that code. That would be pretty neat to see something like this again tho (IMO)

legends said:
Does this tool still work[?]

You could have found that out by just clicking the links.

legends said:
[Y]es I know, [the thread is] 6 years[ old]. But doesn't hurt to ask.

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boolde said:
Maybe the original code still works, but I don't think anyone here has that code. That would be pretty neat to see something like this again tho (IMO)

Found the repo linked in the replies to that Reddit post, not sure if it's complete or functional though.

There are other tools that are somewhat similar, most notably e621 Wrapped (see forum topic #58160).