My Substack Comments

Source code for a small webpage that displays my Substack comments in a searchable format. You can check it out at https://matthagy.github.io/substack_comments/

This is a public demo of a custom Substack front-end that I'm currently working on. Since this is public, it only includes my own comments. My personal, private version has all ~200k comments from all subscribers and more features. Hope to eventually release the custom front-end as open source code so that others can also use these features.

Comments are fetched using substack_client as described in, Developing a Substack client to fetch posts and comments.

Run locally using

python3 -m http.server

Then visit the given URL in your browser. Eg http://[::]:8000/

Moreover, you're own UI could build up to something like the following:

Tags and categories can make far more bespoke graphs as long as the definitions are sufficiently consistent as demonstrated in:

From find_hagy_coment_tags.ipynb