WordPress Visit Counter

Problem
You have a wordpress blog (or several) and you want to know the (total) number of visitors. How to nail it?

Solution
Here is a simple script that scrapes the essential parts from a webpage.

Sample output:

https://pythonadventures.wordpress.com       29,822
http://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com        100,639
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Total number of visits: 130,461!

This idea was inspired by vanity.

Username/password generator

Problem
You want to register on a website but you don’t want to use the same username/password combination everywhere. It’d be nice to have a generator for this task.

Solution
I made a Python script for this, available here.

Sample output:

akutak      # username
C0A9b69h    # password

Easy access to download stats for PyPI packages

Problem
You have a project that you pushed on PyPI and you want to check how many times it has been downloaded.

Solution
Use the command-line script vanity.

Installation:

sudo pip install vanity

Example:

$ vanity jabbapylib
jabbapylib-0.1.0.tar.gz     2012-01-25       81
jabbapylib-0.1.1.tar.gz     2012-02-17        0
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jabbapylib has been downloaded 81 times!