Number of Posts in a Thread

[Gargamel]

I started the "Primes" forum game the other day, and I was wondering if there was a simple way to keep score. 

I am not a web designer, I haven't done any real web design in 20+ years, so I'm asking for a little help. 

I'd like to see a widget made up that can count the times a person has posted in a thread.  It will then list the top 5 posters in that thread.   Something like a linkable picture that is updated every time it gets loaded.   I could then add that pic to the OP of the thread, and each time it is viewed, it would list the top scores, without having to manually visit an outside site.  

It'd be really cool if this could be made so an OP could add this to any thread, so some of the threads that are possibly scored this way could also benefit from this. 

 

[Kerbinchaser]

I know I've used something like this before. Let me search through old extensions and see what I can find.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

I should be able to make something in python that can count the number of posts by each user in a thread, but I don't know how to host it so it could make a updating picture. I'd also check with the mods before making something that automatically makes a bunch of requests to the forums. Something that you run manually likely wouldn't be an issue, but something that runs every time the page is loaded may cause issues.

Edited December 21, 2018 by Mad Rocket Scientist

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

Here you go, a python script that will take any thread and list how many times people have posted in it.

https://pastebin.com/BfjCR2EX

It requires:

• http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/
• https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextlib.html
• https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
• https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/collections.html
• https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/operator.html

Warning, using this on long threads will take a long time, I'd like to try to improve this but I'm not sure how. It also makes a lot of requests to the forums, comparable to one person clicking next page as fast as possible. It shouldn't be an issue if run by hand on smallish threads, but I would be careful if you try to automate running this script.

I'll try to figure out some way to save data from the program, then the next time it is run on the same thread, it will just add to that instead of looking through the entire thread.

[Gargamel]

Thanks @Mad Rocket Scientist, but I think I have moved away from this style of scoring.   But that said, somebody else might find it useful.   But before we progress, I think a little feed back from somebody like @ManeTI would be appropriate at this time. 

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

2 hours ago, Gargamel said:

Thanks @Mad Rocket Scientist, but I think I have moved away from this style of scoring.   But that said, somebody else might find it useful.   But before we progress, I think a little feed back from somebody like @ManeTI would be appropriate at this time. 

That's completely understandable, it was a fun project anyway. 

[Gargamel]

18 hours ago, Mad Rocket Scientist said:

That's completely understandable, it was a fun project anyway. 

At the very least you have a block of code you can steal from in the future.