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Just a quick tool I put together to output the number of people on a site using the chartbeat api and the python requests library. Useful for GeekTool and other visualization tools.
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| #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| """ | |
| A quick tool to output the number of people on a site | |
| using the chartbeat api and the python requests library | |
| Useful for GeekTool and other visualization tools | |
| """ | |
| import requests | |
| ENDPOINT_PREFIX = "http://api.chartbeat.com" | |
| API_KEY = "" | |
| HOST = "" | |
| ENDPOINT = "/live/quickstats/v3/" | |
| uri = "%s%s?apikey=%s&host=%s" % ( | |
| ENDPOINT_PREFIX, ENDPOINT, API_KEY, HOST) | |
| r = requests.get(uri) | |
| print "%s visitors" % r.json()['people'] |
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Note, you may need to use the full path to python when you are inserting the command into GeekTool because it may not be in the PATH.