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Deep analysis of blog authors' recent thoughts, philosophy, and positions. Goes beyond entity page creation to extract cited ideological positions, track thought evolution, and enable ongoing RSS monitoring for thought updates.
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| name | blog-author-thought-analysis |
| description | Deep analysis of blog authors' recent thoughts, philosophy, and positions. Goes beyond entity page creation to extract cited ideological positions, track thought evolution, and enable ongoing RSS monitoring for thought updates. |
| version | 1.0.0 |
| metadata | {"hermes":{"tags":["blog-analysis","thought-tracking","wiki-creation","RSS-monitoring","citation-extraction"],"homepage":"https://github.com/kzinmr/ai-topics"}} |
| prerequisites | {"commands":["python3","curl"],"skills":["blogwatcher","llm-wiki"]} |
Extract and document blog authors' recent philosophical positions, technical stances, and thought evolution with proper citations for the AI topics wiki.
OPML/Blog List → Check blog_authors.json → RSS Fetch → Article Scraping → Thought Extraction → Wiki Creation → RSS Monitoring
Always check ~/.hermes/scripts/blog_authors.json before re-scraping.
The build_blog_wiki.py script already scraped all OPML blogs and cached:
import json
with open('~/.hermes/scripts/blog_authors.json') as f:
authors = json.load(f)
# Search by blog URL or author name
If the cached data is sufficient, skip to Step 4 (thought analysis). Only re-scrape if:
Namespace Handling (critical pitfall):
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" before parsing with ElementTreeatom: namespace prefixes in RSS feedsre.sub(r'\sxmlns[^"]*"[^"]*"', '', xml_text) before ET.fromstring()# Atom parsing example
xml_clean = re.sub(r'\sxmlns[^"]*"[^"]*"', '', xml_text)
root = ET.fromstring(xml_clean)
for entry in root.findall('.//entry'):
title = entry.findtext('title', '').strip()
link = entry.find('link').get('href', '')
Prioritize articles that reveal philosophy/positions:
Selection criteria:
Use web_extract for full article content:
from hermes_tools import web_extract
results = web_extract(urls=[article_url1, article_url2, ...])
What to extract:
Structure for thought analysis pages:
---
title: "Author Name"
created: YYYY-MM-DD
updated: YYYY-MM-DD
tags: [person, blogger, thought-analysis, ai]
aliases: ["blog-url-slug"]
---
# Author Name
| | |
|---|---|
| **Blog** | [url](url) |
| **RSS** | feed_url |
| **Social** | handles |
## Core Philosophy
### 1. [Major Position Theme]
> Direct quote with attribution
> Another key quote
Context and analysis...
### 2. [Second Major Theme]
...
## Recent Thought Evolution (YYYY)
- How positions have changed
- Key inflection points
- Emerging themes
## Key Quotes
> "Quote 1" - [Source](url)
> "Quote 2" - [Source](url)
## Related Concepts
- [[concept-1]]
- [[concept-2]]
## Sources
- [Article Title](url)
- [Another Article](url)
Citation requirements:
build_blog_wiki.py generates initial entity pages for all OPML blogs, but these often contain only a Bio paste and recent titles. Upgrade rather than recreate:
from hermes_tools import patch, read_file
# 1. Check if entity page already exists
existing = search_files(pattern=f"*{author_slug}*.md", target="files", path="~/wiki/entities/")
# 2. Read current page to preserve existing metadata
current = read_file(f"~/wiki/entities/{author_slug}.md")
# 3. Use patch to ADD thought analysis sections (don't overwrite)
patch(path=f"~/wiki/entities/{author_slug}.md",
old_string="## Recent Posts (topics/interests)\n\n- (no recent posts found)",
new_string="<thought analysis content>")
# 4. Update tags in frontmatter
patch(path=f"~/wiki/entities/{author_slug}.md",
old_string="tags: [person, blogger, hn-popular]",
new_string="tags: [person, blogger, hn-popular, thought-analysis, ai]")
Upgrade priority order:
After creating thought analysis page:
blogwatcher-cli add "Author Name" blog_url --feed-url rss_urlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" breaks ET.fromstring() without strippinglen(entries) > 0 before proceedingpatch tool to add sections to existing pagessimonw.md AND simon-willison.md). Use the most complete one and consider mergingcurl on RSS feeds may return empty due to Cloudflare or rate limitingweb_extract with the blog's HTML URL instead# 1. Fetch RSS
rss_urls = extract_from_opml("blogs.opml")
# 2. Select substantive articles
priority_urls = [u for u in rss_urls if is_essay(u)]
# 3. Scrape full content
articles = web_extract(urls=priority_urls[:5])
# 4. Extract quotes and positions
thoughts = analyze_thoughts(articles)
# 5. Create wiki page
create_wiki_page(author, thoughts)
# 6. Set up monitoring
blogwatcher_add(author, rss_url)