Instructables stat grab.
Many people have created tutorials on www.instructables.com. To see how each instructable is doing can be a chore. Devised a bash script to help conquer that chore. Though data may not be the latest, it certainly shows viable trends. You can also import the data into a spreadsheet rather easily. First you will want to create a text file with the instructables you want to follow. One url to a line. http://www.instructables.com/id/Line-editor-template/ You may need to install a program or two such as elinks and zenity so things will work. Then you will want to create an executable of the file to collect the data. #================================ # # Instructables numbers catcher # #================================= # Assignments # -------------------------------- szAnswer=$(zenity --file-selection --title="Select a iurl file to read") datafile=$szAnswer outfile="inumdata" total=0 # the date tmon=$(date +"%b") tday=$(date +"%d...