CREEPY(1) General Commands Manual CREEPY(1)
NAME
CREEPY - A geolocation information aggregator
DESCRIPTION
creepy is an application that allows you to gather geolocation related information about users from social networking platforms and image
hosting services. The information is presented in a map inside the application where all the retrieved data is shown accompanied with rele-
vant information (i.e. what was posted from that specific location) to provide context to the presentation.
FEATURES
Map providers available :
Google Maps - Virtual Maps - Open Street Maps
Location information retieval from :
Twitter's tweet location:
Coordinates when tweet was posted from mobile device.
Place (geographical name) derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. Place gets translated into coordinates
using geonames.com"
Bounding Box derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface.The less accurate source , a corner of the bounding box
is selected randomly.
Geolocation information accessible through image hosting services API
EXIF tags from the photos posted.
Social networking platforms currently supported:
Twitter
Foursquare (only checkins that are posted to twitter).
Image hosting services currently supported :
flickr - information retrieved from API
twitpic.com - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags
yfrog.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
img.ly - information retrieved from photo exif tags
plixi.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
twitrpix.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
foleext.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
shozu.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
pickhur.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
moby.to - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags
twitsnaps.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
twitgoo.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
NOTES
Automatic caching of retrieved information in order to reduce API calls and the possibility of hitting limit rates.
GUI with navigable map for better overview of the accumulated information
4 Maps providers (including Google Maps) to use.
Open locations in Google Maps in your browser
Export retrieved locations list as kmz (for Google Earth) or csv files.
Handling twitter authentication in an easy way using oAuth. User credentials are not shared with the application.
User/target search for twitter and flickr.
AUTHOR
creepy was written by Yiannis Kakavas <jkakavas@gmail.com>
This manual page was written by Daniel Echeverry for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
SEE ALSO
The full documentation which includes the keys descriptions is in /usr/share/doc/creepy/README.
MAY 08, 2011 CREEPY(1)