College Elections with loklak
summary
A web app uses the Loklak Search API to turn college roll numbers into hashtags, query Twitter via Loklak's JSON aggregation endpoint (source=cache, mentions) and count unique usernames per candidate so repeated tweets from one account count once (unique username filter). Front end shows polls with Highcharts, hosted on the Loklak apps repo. The claim is real time class rep elections with seconds‑fast results versus a slow local server and the prototype works at campus scale.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and project overview
- 2:34Problem with college elections
- 5:27Introduction to Loklak API
- 6:29Workflow of the election system
- 9:03Hosting and deployment process
- 10:55Live demo and results display
- 13:04Contributing to the project
- 15:36Future goals and Q&A
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