Inspired by Skunkworks’ comments of a few weeks ago, I’ve written a Python program to gather basic forum stats. It only looks at the HTML data in the View By Time panel, so it can only get the postID, the Subject and the User name; it doesn’t look at the posting time or the size of the post.

Strangely, the View By Time panel occasionally skips a post.

Here’s the data for the last 5 pages, i.e., the last 100 posts.

Start time: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 14:09:16 EST
Fetching http://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/?page=1
Fetching http://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/?page=2
Fetching http://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/?page=3
Fetching http://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/?page=4
Fetching http://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/?page=5
Finish time: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 14:09:22 EST

100 posts found

WARNING: missing postID. Expected 507462, got 507461
WARNING: missing postID. Expected 507416, got 507415

Poster	Count
poikilotherm	13
roughbarked	11
party_pants	8
PM 2Ring	8
transition	7
The Rev Dodgson	7
Carmen_Sandiego	7
ChrispenEvan	6
buffy	5
jjjust moi	4
Divine Angel	4
sibeen	3
pommiejohn	3
CrazyNeutrino	3
wookiemeister	2
stumpy_seahorse	2
ratty one	2
Dropbear	2
captain_spalding	1
Stealth	1
Peak Warming Man	1

Subject	Count
re: March chat	87
re: what's on in space 2014	8
re: Goodnight	3
re: Science Books and more	2