eclipseforumstats.rb

require 'rss'
require 'pp'
require 'rss/dublincore'
 
$totals = Hash.new(0)
$authors = Hash.new(0)
 
FORUM_ID = 221 # replace this with your frm_id
 
def calculate(feed)
  feed.items.reverse.map.each do |item|
    $totals[item.date.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")] += 1
    $authors[item.dc_creator] += 1
  end
end
 
# it's not possible to get the whole RSS feed at once, so we fetch it by chunks of 50 items
# you might want to iterate more than 8 times in the following loop, if you want to retrieve more than just the 400 last posts...
for i in (0..8)
  rss = RSS::Parser.parse("http://www.eclipse.org/forums/feed.php?mode=m&l=1&basic=1&frm=#{FORUM_ID}&n=50&o=#{i*50}", true)
  if rss.respond_to?('items') then calculate(rss) end
end
 
$totals.each do |k,v| puts "#{k}\t#{v}" end
  
$authors.sort_by {|k,v| v}.reverse.each do |k,v| puts "#{k}\t#{v}" end