# Jrtechs Steam Friend Graph Project

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# Steam Graph Analysis

This is a project that I threw together during the weekend to play around with gremlin graph database. Currently this project scrapes the steam API for friends and their friends which can be used to generate a graph. This information is stored locally in a gremlin server and is then sent to the client via a web socket.

This project is in the VERY early stages of development and is far from finished. If you are lucky, you will find it live at http://jrtechs.student.rit.edu/friendsOfFriends.html. It is still being actively developed and does not have permanent hosting so there is a %60 chance at any time that you will be able to access it.

# Bugs

- Tends to crash w/o telling user if you provide an invalid steam id

# TODO

- Include a steam name to steam id lookup
- Dockerize this entire environment
- Connect the gremlin/janus server to a HBase server for persistent storage
- Make the graphs look better -- possibly switch from sigma.js to d3
- Get the java web socket to work with ssh -- currently does not work with wss
- Make more graphs to provide more insights
  - Most common friends of friends -- will show you people you may know
  - Graph of a larger chunk of the steam community
  - ...
- Write more documentation on how the system as a whole works.
- Write blog post on what I learned during this project.