Some ugly code to scrape blog posts and count how many, count total words, and count researchblogging.org references. Attributes will differ depending on theme used and platform (made using wordpress).

blog_scraper.py

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import mechanize
import time
import re

pagenum = 1
url = "http://www.bloghomepage.com" 
browser = mechanize.Browser()
page = browser.open(url)
postcount = 0
totalwordcount = 0
totalrefcount = 0
stop = "false"

while "false" in stop:
    soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
    link = soup.find("span", {"class":"next"})
    # attributes probably need to be changed depending on the wordpress theme used
    if "Older" in str(link):
        pagenum += 1
        print pagenum
        stop = "false"
    else:
        stop = "true"
    for table in soup.findAll('h1', {'class':'title'}):
        links = table.findAll('a')
        if "href" in str(links):
            #print links
            separatelinks = re.search("(?P<url>http?://[^\>\"\s]+)", str(links)).group("url")
            print separatelinks
            site = browser.open(str(separatelinks)).read()
            soup = BeautifulSoup(site)
            content = soup.find("div", {"class":"content entry-content"})
            fp = open('C:/filename.html', 'w')
            fp.write(str(content))
            fp.close()

            f = open('C:/filename.html', 'r')
            readit = f.read()
            f.close()

            onlytext = ''.join(BeautifulSoup(readit).findAll(text=True))
            #print onlytext
            fp2 = open('C:/filename.html', 'w')
            fp2.write(str(onlytext.encode('ascii','ignore')))
            fp2.close()

            words = re.findall('\w+', open('C:/filename.html').read().lower())
            wordcount = len(words)
            print wordcount
            totalwordcount += wordcount
            print totalwordcount

            refcount = 0
            for Z3988 in soup.findAll('span', {'class':'Z3988'}):
                refcount += 1
            print refcount
            totalrefcount += refcount
            print totalrefcount
            
            postcount += 1
            print postcount

            #time.sleep(1) If you don't want to hit the server too fast
            
        else:
            print "not a link"
            url = "http://www.bloghomepage.com/page/"+str(pagenum)
            page = browser.open(url)