Creating Reddit Summaries with URL Context and Gemini / / No Comments A while ago, the Gemini API added a feature to help work with URL content, URL Context. Previously you had to fetch and download the HTML of the page and pass it to the API. This feature allows Gemini to request content (with limits) from public web pages. I thought it would be interesting to test this against Reddit. In the past I’ve made use of Reddit’s APIs, but as they’ve pretty much destroyed access to those APIs, I thought this could be a good work around. Here’s a simple demo I built. My demo parses the Astro subreddit, specifically the new feed, and asks for a summary of items that seem to require a developer’s help, as well as items that may be critical... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Context, creating, Gemini, Reddit, Summaries
The Map of Reddit Now Has Street View / / No Comments The Map of Reddit now has a ‘Street View’ option which allows you to explore this organisational network map of the world’s subreddits as a 3D environment. The Map of Reddit is an interactive map which organizes and plots subreddits based on their similarity. Subreddits are individual subject forums on the social news forum Reddit. On this Map of Reddit individual subreddits are positioned near Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Reddit, Street, View