Getting your wordpress self hosted stats on your console with bash script update regularly.

Getting your wordpress self hosted stats on your console with bash script.

Some time back I wrote a blog on how to get your site stats using curl in bash shell. Today we will use the same script to get the stats every few seconds on the terminal on the same line, similar to progress meter.

Here is the script and the description:

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#!/bin/bash -
#===============================================================================
#
#          FILE:  update_stats.sh
#
#         USAGE:  ./update_stats.sh
#
#   DESCRIPTION:  Update the stats inline in shell every $1 seconds.
#
#       OPTIONS:  ---
#  REQUIREMENTS:  ---
#          BUGS:  ---
#         NOTES:  ---
#        AUTHOR:  <a class="zem_slink" title="Amit Agarwal" rel="homepage" href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in">Amit Agarwal</a> (AKA), [email protected]
#       COMPANY:  Individual
#       VERSION:  1.0
#       CREATED:  06/21/2010 11:27:16 PM IST
#      REVISION:  ---
#===============================================================================

sleep_time=30 #the time to wait between stats collection
run_stats=get_stats  # the script to run to get the stats
filename=/tmp/statpress.html # the filename where the script is storing the html file of your statpress page.
eval $run_stats 2><a class="zem_slink freebase/en/dev_null" title="/dev/null" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/null">/dev/null</a>
while (true)
do
<!--loginview start-->values=$(cat $filename | w3m -dump -T <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/html" title="HTML" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">text/html</a> |<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/grep" title="Grep" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep">grep</a> "^Visitor\\|^Pageviews"|<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk</a> \'{print $10}\'|tr  "\\n" " ")
time=$(date)
printf "$time --> $values \\r"<!--loginview end-->
sleep $sleep_time
done
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3 thoughts on “Getting your wordpress self hosted stats on your console with bash script update regularly.”

  3. It was very interesting for me to read the article. Thanks for it. I like such topics and everything connected to this matter. I would like to read a bit more soon. BTW, pretty good design this site has, but what do you think about changing it from time to time?

    Kate Kripke