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Software, Android >

(on Google Play)
(on F-Droid)
https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete

An app to view and assist the OpenStreetMap project.

Nice and simple.

  • Mostly-Sandboxed

    • Stores data externally. Might be able to communicate to-and-from other apps, but doesn’t appear to bother.
  • Location optional

    • For its compass.
  • WiFi required

    • To sync data and provide your answers.



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Software, Android >

(on Google Play)
(on F-Droid)
https://osmand.net/

An OpenStreetMap map app, with a very straightforward interface and offline downloading.

Fantastic!

  • Sandboxed; does not use/share data with other apps.
  • Location optional
  • WiFi optional for map/data updates

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(port) > Software > YouTube >

https://github.com/philbot9/youtube-comment-scraper/

Downloads the comments on YouTube videos.

Used to be available at ytcomments.klostermann.ca but that IP got banned because of overuse.

  • WARNING – Do not overuse this program, or maybe you will get IP-banned. The authors’ GUI website did.
  • See my youtube-comment-scraper.sh script for how I use it.

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Software >

abandoned original: https://github.com/tylerhall/simple-url-shortener
forked: https://github.com/cargilcm/simple-url-shortener

Make your own URL shortener. e.g. for the owner of example.com links can be shortened like so:

example.com/some-long-url
to
example.com/abcd2

Impressively simple and easy to use. I chose it because it has one single very small script.

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