[adpreese]

I did try it out. It does a good job of pulling out different bits and categorizing them. I went ahead and ran the example you had and put it up to continue the conversation(https://gist.github.com/adpreese/6722561). If you want me to take it down, I will certainly respect that but I thought it'd be convenient for anyone else paying attention.

The noun phrases part of the response gave a concise list of things, including the word thing(hijacked, NLP thread, stuff, My NLP, thing, Drakaal, cooler, heuristics, Just). That's maybe good at picking out the nouns, but it's not really actionable yet. It might be great as the bag of words to use for trying to classify something, but by itself the best it's giving me is NLP/heuristics if I had the concepts grouped together, somehow. I think that's a reasonable takeaway from your example, but I'd be curious what your thoughts are on it.

PS. I tried the TLDR API on a copy and paste of the original article with commas, periods, and single and double quotes removed but it returned a 500 error. I'm probably doing something wrong, but I'd love to see what it spits out if you can help me out.

[drakaal]

We have the groupings and we can use sentiment to get the importance. The API is somewhat limited compared to our full bag of tricks, mostly because we don't want to give away all of our secrets, but also because we change things pretty often and would have to let others know when we made changes if they were consuming an API.

[drakaal]

Play with the http://TLDRStuff.com tools there is zero learning curve over there.

One of the API's takes a URL, one takes plaintext or HTML, not sure which one you hit, but the TLDRStuff.com will make it really easy for you to play.