Software update: AO3 Scraper

[john_amend_all]

This is aimed mainly at those, like me, who spend far too much time looking at their statistics on AO3 and trying to work out what they signify.

Back when we had the AO3 Stats meme, there was some talk of doing more analysis on the figures than AO3's simple sorting options could handle. For example, sorting works by (kudos ÷ hits) to get a 'proportion of satisfied readers' figure. And I wrote a clunky command-line utility to do that.

I've now rewritten that utility so that it's got a proper user interface, doesn't need to be compiled at the command line, and should run on anything with a Java runtime. It can be downloaded here.

(The 'age' figure is deceptive for a multi-part work with parts posted over time, because AO3 reports the date the most recent part was posted. That's why Ac Velut in Somnis appears to have got 150 hits in only two days.)

Comments

[aralias]

this looks great :D well done - i'll definitely play with it later.

sad to think of so few 'satisfied readers', though. so... i'm going to not use that terminology in my head.

[john_amend_all]

Quite apart from anything else, a satisfied reader might reread the work, giving an extra hit or more and lowering the kudos/hit ratio. Statistics are great!

[fififolle]

Thank you :D

[john_amend_all]

You're welcome!