Stackstats

A simple command line application that retrieves data from StackOverflow and calculates some statistics on them.

Installation

Using pip

$ cd stackstats-1.0
$ pip install .

Running setup file

$ cd stackstats-1.0
$ python setup.py install

Usage

Running command

$ stats --since SINCE_DATE --until UNTIL_DATE [--output-format FORMAT]

The application expects two date arguments in order to choose the date/time range to retrieve the answer data for, as well as one optional to specify the output format. The default output format is JSON.

Expected date/time format: YYYYMMDD HH:mm:SS

Available output format options: json, csv and html

Output

The application calculates the following statistics:

• Total accepted answers
• Accepted answers' average score
• Average answer count per question
• Comment count for the top 10 answers

Running tests

$ cd stackstats-1.0
$ python setup.py test

Example

$ stats --since '20200602 10:00:00' --until '20200602 10:05:00'
{"total_accepted_answers": 15, 
"accepted_answers_average_score": 1.07, 
"average_answers_per_question": 1.03, 
"top_ten_answers_comment_count": {"62146559": 7, "62146540": 2, "62146542": 0, "62146565": 3, "62146574": 0, "62146501": 0, "62146505": 3, "62146529": 0, "6214
6543": 1, "62146546": 2}}