One thing I wish RedBubble accounts did have is an overall view of your tags, perhaps something like the tag cloud I have on my general photography site. I know that you can get a view of some related tags in the art view and that RedBubble has an overall view of tags but they’re not quite the same thing.
I did get to thinking that it would be possible to write some code that grabbed a list of all of my tags using a site scraping method (sort of similar to the art export tool I wrote the other week) but given that it would need to work through every page of my art this seemed a little too heavy on the site hits.
Then I got to thinking: I pretty much know most of my tags anyway—I’m generally pretty careful about how I tag things and I try really hard to be consistent. So, given that, how hard could it be to knock up a list of most of my tags by hand?
Not that hard at all as it turns out. So, after all that, my wrapper site for RedBubble now has an overview of my sets and tags on RedBubble.
Just as when I set the site up, this is as much an experiment as anything else. The obvious thing that it’s missing is any indication as to which are the more popular tags. But, for now, it’s a start.
