[atlas] Sharing Stats?

On Fri, 4 May 2012 17:39:51 +0200
Dan Luedtke <maildanrl at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> what are your opinions on sharing stats from a probe to the public?
> 
> My idea: I have a public probe and public UDMs running, and I would
> like to embed the "last 8 hours" graphs into a website where people
> can see it, even those that do not have access to RIPE Atlas. Do you
> think it is a good idea to ask for a feature that splits the "Public"
> checkbox into two ones saying "Public (ATLAS Community)" and "Public
> (Internet)"?

The only potential problem I see is if people embed those graph images
on popular websites, the Atlas project will need to serve a lot of
requests from the public - probably not a big issue, but would need to
be considered.

In the meantime, I imagine you could whip up a script to periodically
screen-scrape the Atlas interface to grab a copy of the graph you want
to share with the world and cache it on your server; whether that would
be considered OK by RIPE, I don't know, but I see no real reason it
shouldn't.




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