Get the total number of comments in a Disqus forum

total_comments_disqus.py

import urllib2, json

api_key = 'your_disqus_api_key'
forum = 'your_forum_shortname'

f = urllib2.urlopen('https://disqus.com/api/3.0/forums/listThreads.json?api_key=' + api_key + '&forum=' + forum + '&limit=100')
data = json.loads(f.read())

total = 0
for thread in data['response']:
    total += thread['posts']
i = 1
threads = 100
while 'next' in data['cursor']:
    print 'next %s : %s (%s %s)' % (i, data['cursor']['next'], str(threads), str(total))
    f = urllib2.urlopen('https://disqus.com/api/3.0/forums/listThreads.json?api_key=' + api_key + '&forum=' + forum + '&limit=100&cursor=' + data['cursor']['next'])
    data = json.loads(f.read())
    for thread in data['response']:
        threads += 1
        total += thread['posts']
    i += 1

print 'threads %s total comments %s' % (threads, total)