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What is jWebProfile?


jWebProfile is a desktop application that lets the user to combine/collect information related to people from social media accounts. Currently, jWebProfile facilitates it's users to collect information from Twitter and Github.

To be clear, if there is a person, say X, who owns a Twitter account and a Github account, then jWebProfile lets you combine X's information from Twitter and Github and create a "virtual profile" of X and store that profile information offline on your local machine.

jWebProfile doesn't run any servers. If you have jWebProfile on your machine right now, then it's yours and yours alone!

jWebProfile also helps you to generate dataset containing tweets of a particular person. You can collect 3200 tweets in a single click (because it is the Twitter API limit) and you can collect more than 3200 tweets over time. When you have enough tweets collected, you can export the tweets to a CSV file.

jWebProfile provides a proof-of-concept for analyzing digital footprint of a person.

jWebProfile was purely built in Java programming language and JARs are distributed for you to run it. And it's open source. So, you will be provided the source code.

 You can start jWebProfile by running .exe file on Windows. On Linux, you can run a shell script included in the package. Or you can manually run the JAR file from the command line.

How to download and install it?

You will have to download the complete ZIP file and extract it on your PC. No installation required. Just make sure your Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is updated :

Google Drive link (latest version with new feature)

Google Drive link (improved UI, older version)

Google Drive link (basic UI, older version)

Dropbox link (older version.)


For Linux users:
If you are a Linux user and using OpenJDK to run your Java applications, then you might want to install OpenJFX. Because, jWebProfile depends on it.
Just run the following command and you will be good:

sudo apt-get install openjfx        

You can find similar command for RPM-based distros.

Check out the screenshots of jWebProfile here

Have a great day!

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Screenshots of jWebProfile