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

• Does not work with firefox
• 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
  • Friends with friends -- shows which of your friends are friends with each other
  • Most common friends 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.