Recently I became interested in Keybase.io and really wanted to be able explore my network-graph using Gephi, so I wrote a quick tool to collect the data from Keybase; dump it into GraphML file; then loaded it up in Gephi. The results nicely highlight who-knows-who; the strengths and weaknesses in my own Keybase network; and super connector users with many followers.
Keybase
Keybase is an interesting project, and the circle-of-trust improvements their tooling provides is probably better than anything else out there at the moment. The obvious concern is whether they have a business model that provides sufficient value to people (or enterprises) that will make Keybase long-term viable.
Github project
Command line
$ ./keybase-network-graph.py -h
usage: keybase-network-graph.py [-h] --uid <uid> [--depth <depth>]
[--path <path>] [--nograph]
Keybase Network Grapher
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--uid <uid> Initial uid to start collecting data on, required.
--depth <depth> Maximum depth of user connections to collect data on,
default = 1
--path <path> Maximum depth of user connections to collect data down to,
default = /tmp/keybase-network-graph
--nograph Prevent GraphML generation.
Visualizations in Gephi
