LoyceV's complete List of all Bitcointalk usernames

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021

Quote from: babo on February 16, 2024, 12:29:52 PM

is the code you are using to scrape free? I wanted to take a look maybe

I use free open source tools, but my code is not public. Basically, I download the latest user profile, and check if it exists. If it exists, I'll go to the next one. If it doesn't exist, I'll wait a few hours and try again. That's it. So if the forum somehow skips one userID, my script doesn't reach the next one until I intervene.

babo

legendary

Activity: 3528

Merit: 4042

Quote from: LoyceV on February 10, 2024, 04:02:02 AM

What happened to userID 3604953? This one was skipped, which made my scraper think it's not in use so it was stuck for a week.
It's working again, but I'm curious what caused this.

LoyceV a question: I wanted to ask you something, is the code you are using to scrape free? I wanted to take a look maybe

thankz

ibminer

legendary

Activity: 1789

Merit: 2535

Goonies never say die.

Quote from: LoyceV on February 10, 2024, 04:02:02 AM

What happened to userID 3604953?~

I discovered this same ID looping on BPIP's parsers around the 22nd of January, which I had to skip, to keep the parsers going. I didn't realize it was effecting others though, we saw it more as a bug on our end, which we've been monitoring.

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021

What happened to userID 3604953? This one was skipped, which made my scraper think it's not in use so it was stuck for a week.
It's working again, but I'm curious what caused this.

joker_josue

legendary

Activity: 1638

Merit: 4508

**In BTC since 2013**

Quote from: LoyceV on September 02, 2022, 03:05:46 AM

It's possible, but I don't have it. BPIP shows it, so maybe @suchmoon or @ibminer can give you a database dump for this?
Alternatively, you could just check one in every 1000 profiles, that should give you a pretty good estimate of the other registration dates. Scraping all profiles (3.5 million) just for this would take 6 weeks and seems like a waste of forum bandwidth.

I understand. Thanks for the feedback.

For the intended purpose, it would only make sense to have the dates right, at least from the oldest members.
I'll try to see with @suchmoon or @ibminer if they can help.

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021

Quote from: joker_josue on September 02, 2022, 02:54:05 AM

Is it possible to obtain a list of users, including the registration date?

It's possible, but I don't have it. BPIP shows it, so maybe @suchmoon or @ibminer can give you a database dump for this?
Alternatively, you could just check one in every 1000 profiles, that should give you a pretty good estimate of the other registration dates. Scraping all profiles (3.5 million) just for this would take 6 weeks and seems like a waste of forum bandwidth.

joker_josue

legendary

Activity: 1638

Merit: 4508

**In BTC since 2013**

Is it possible to obtain a list of users, including the registration date?

Welsh

staff

Activity: 3248

Merit: 4110

Quote from: TheBeardedBaby on August 12, 2021, 09:39:48 AM

Keep in mind that this one does not work with changed nicknames. You'll get error like trying to test mine:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;user=TheBeardedBaby

It does however, link to the new username's profile if you put in their old username. I guess, if the user changed their username for privacy reasons, could potentially be an issue. Although, there's other ways to find that out, so probably not that critical.

Quote from: LoyceV on August 12, 2021, 04:39:39 AM

Wow, after all those years, I never new this was possible Shocked

Yeah, not something I even considered trying. Good to know for the future, though.

mellon

legendary

Activity: 1014

Merit: 1002

Quel marth Melloneamin

Interesting. I’m about few years not be here. a lot has changed, but not LoyceV as he worked for the benefit of the community and continues this noble cause. Glad to see you. Should be anything changed in the list after my post?

ajaxtempest

member

Activity: 107

Merit: 50

Just found that i am the 3,468,973 th user!

Also i could have been the 14294th user. That was the date and time i had posted in some tech forum about bitcoin.
Should have joined this forum that day Undecided

may 21 2011.

btc was $5.59 on that day.

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021

Quote from: TheBeardedBaby on August 12, 2021, 09:39:48 AM

Keep in mind that this one does not work with changed nicknames.

Well, that sucks Sad

Those are ones I need to search most.

TheBeardedBaby

legendary

Activity: 2184

Merit: 3134

₿uy / $ell

Quote from: LoyceV on August 12, 2021, 04:39:39 AM

Quote from: gredinger on August 11, 2021, 11:30:05 PM

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;user=LoyceV

Wow, after all those years, I never new this was possible Shocked

Thanks for this, it will come in handy, especially for data dumps that show usernames instead of userIDs!

Keep in mind that this one does not work with changed nicknames. You'll get error like trying to test mine:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;user=TheBeardedBaby

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021

Quote from: gredinger on August 11, 2021, 11:30:05 PM

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;user=LoyceV

Wow, after all those years, I never new this was possible Shocked

Thanks for this, it will come in handy, especially for data dumps that show usernames instead of userIDs!

gredinger

member

Activity: 152

Merit: 53

Quote from: LoyceV on November 17, 2019, 12:20:09 PM

I often need to find the userID that goes with a username. I can't easily get this from the forum

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;user=LoyceV

You can use 'user=[username]' parameter for a query easily enough. Once you're to the user profile, you can pull the user ID from send a message ahref [or other parts of the profile].

PrimeNumber7

copper member

Activity: 1610

Merit: 1898

Amazon Prime Member #7

Quote from: LoyceV on August 10, 2021, 06:35:54 AM

Quote from: examplens on August 10, 2021, 06:28:28 AM

I meant accounts like this. he was registered, stayed for one minute and never returned back, or did not return under that username.
has only a website on its profile and it is most likely an account created to make a backlink to that site. this is one case, but I've seen a lot of them even without website link in profile.

At some point Bitcointalk accounts were used to spam backlinks: I've seen certain backlinks on (tens of) thousands of profiles. It would have been better to hide the Website link for users with evil fee.

I believe that accounts that are evil banned are not able to post links in their profile anymore. I am not sure what happened to the accounts that did this before this was changed. It would probably be best to have websites removed from evil banned accounts, if they haven't been already.

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021

Quote from: examplens on August 10, 2021, 06:28:28 AM

I meant accounts like this. he was registered, stayed for one minute and never returned back, or did not return under that username.
has only a website on its profile and it is most likely an account created to make a backlink to that site. this is one case, but I've seen a lot of them even without website link in profile.

At some point Bitcointalk accounts were used to spam backlinks: I've seen certain backlinks on (tens of) thousands of profiles. It would have been better to hide the Website link for users with evil fee.

examplens

legendary

Activity: 3248

Merit: 3098

Quote from: LoyceV on August 10, 2021, 05:57:28 AM

Quote from: examplens on August 10, 2021, 05:46:56 AM

LoyceV, is it possible to single out only usernames/accounts which are only registered and never used again. No one single post, no activity after registration, just registered and abandoned?

Not really: I can't know if a user who registered years ago deleted his posts, or got Nuked. For new users I know if they made a post.

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I was searching for something and I saw that there were a lot of them, maybe they could even be deleted especially those registered a few years earlier and never used after.

Many of those users wake up again after a while (and some of them start spamming).

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I guess new users when coming here have a harder task finding the right username if they don’t want some generic "hgga654".

Reusing usernames is a bad idea: what if someone tries to contact an old user, and it turns out to be someone else?

I meant accounts like this. he was registered, stayed for one minute and never returned back, or did not return under that username.
has only a website on its profile and it is most likely an account created to make a backlink to that site. this is one case, but I've seen a lot of them even without website link in profile.

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021

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I think deleting members which are proxy banned is a good idea of freeing up some old usernames.

I don't think it's going to happen.

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021

Quote from: examplens on August 10, 2021, 05:46:56 AM

LoyceV, is it possible to single out only usernames/accounts which are only registered and never used again. No one single post, no activity after registration, just registered and abandoned?

Not really: I can't know if a user who registered years ago deleted his posts, or got Nuked. For new users I know if they made a post.

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I was searching for something and I saw that there were a lot of them, maybe they could even be deleted especially those registered a few years earlier and never used after.

Many of those users wake up again after a while (and some of them start spamming).

Quote

I guess new users when coming here have a harder task finding the right username if they don’t want some generic "hgga654".

Reusing usernames is a bad idea: what if someone tries to contact an old user, and it turns out to be someone else?

examplens

legendary

Activity: 3248

Merit: 3098

LoyceV, is it possible to single out only usernames/accounts which are only registered and never used again. No one single post, no activity after registration, just registered and abandoned?
I was searching for something and I saw that there were a lot of them, maybe they could even be deleted especially those registered a few years earlier and never used after.
I guess new users when coming here have a harder task finding the right username if they don’t want some generic "hgga654".

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