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25 changes: 5 additions & 20 deletions usercount.py
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Expand Up @@ -80,28 +80,13 @@ def get_parameter( parameter, file_path ):
# Get current timestamp
ts = int(time.time())

# Get the /about/more page from the server
page = requests.get('https://' + mastodon_hostname + '/about/more')

# We could use lxml's html parser, but that requires loads of packages to be
# installed, as it's all C bindings and stuff. So we're gonna do it in a
# really quick and horrible way!

# Returns the substring of s which is between substring1 and substring2
def get_between(s, substring1, substring2):
return s[(s.index(substring1)+len(substring1)):s.index(substring2)]

# Remove newlines to make our life easier
pagecontent = page.content.replace("\n", "")

# Get the number of users, removing commas
current_id = int( get_between(pagecontent, "Home to</span><strong>", "</strong><span>users").replace(",", ""))

# Get the number of toots, removing commas
num_toots = int (get_between(pagecontent, "Who authored</span><strong>", "</strong><span>statuses").replace(",", ""))
# Get the number of users and toots from the server
page = requests.get('https://' + mastodon_hostname + '/api/v1/instance')
current_id = page.json()['stats']['user_count']
num_toots = page.json()['stats']['status_count']

print("Number of users: %s "% current_id)
print("Number of toots: %s "% num_toots )
print("Number of toots: %s "% num_toots)

###############################################################################
# LOG THE DATA
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