nu7hatch/egoistat — pull request #1 by snelson (2012-08-21 03:00:08+00:00)
Title: Add Pinterest counter

Nice work on a very useful web service ... thank you!

I came across your work at the perfect time as we were looking for something like this to use on a current project, but we also need Pinterest. This is the first time I've ever written any Go, but I've hacked a working Pinterest counter. Here's a couple notes:

* Pinterest does not have an official public api, but I was able to find the endpoint I used with a little Googling. I understand if you don't want to merge it in because of this.
* Pinterest does not normalize their urls before tracking the count. So http://egoistat.com, http://www.egoistat.com, http://egoistat.com/ and http://www.egoistat.com/ are all treated as separate urls.

Also, I was pulling my hair out for awhile trying to figure out why I wasn't seeing any changes in functionality when I finally figured out that egoistat.go imports the backend package from somewhere else (Github?) and not from the local repo. Might be good to make a note of this in the readme or come up with a different solution so it works in development without the need to change anything.

Side note: we'd like to use your api on a project launching next month. Is this ok? Is the service open to the public? We appreciate your work on this, and want to make sure this is cool.

Cheers,
Scott