ninjagolloyd wrote:

Is it possible to

1. Find the number of followers I have with the API
2. Find the number of projects I share

thanks

ninjagolloyd wrote:

Is it possible to

1. Find the number of followers I have with the API
2. Find the number of projects I share

thanks

Wettining wrote:

ninjagolloyd wrote:

Is it possible to

1. Find the number of followers I have with the API
2. Find the number of projects I share

thanks

I found out how to do both…
If you go to https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/(username)/projects and count the ammount of times “id” is said, then you get the ammount of shared projects they have and if you go to https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/(username)/followers and do the same thing you get the ammount of followers the user has

Mrcomputer1 wrote:

Wettining wrote:

ninjagolloyd wrote:

Is it possible to

1. Find the number of followers I have with the API
2. Find the number of projects I share

thanks

I found out how to do both…
If you go to https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/(username)/projects and count the ammount of times “id” is said, then you get the ammount of shared projects they have and if you go to https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/(username)/followers and do the same thing you get the ammount of followers the user has

Both of those are limited to showing 20 projects/followers at a time.

A solution to that problem would be:
* Use Wettining's method to get part of the project/follower count
* Add ?offset=20 to the URL and repeat Wettining's method (add the number to the project/follower count)
* Increase the offset by 20 until an empty array [] is returned and now the project/follower count will be correct.

nathanprocks wrote:

The best way that I know of is to just scrape the projects/followers page. Using the API would take a really long time (and hundreds of requests) for some users' follower counts, e.g. griffpatch.
If you want to use the API, something like this should work:

var username = "griffpatch";
var count = 0;
function getProjectCount() {
    var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
    req.addEventListener("load", (e) => {
        let c = JSON.parse(e.target.responseText).length;
        if (c > 0) {
            count += c;
            setTimeout(getProjectCount, 250);
            console.log(count);
        }
    });
    req.open("GET", `https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/${username}/projects?offset=${count}`);
    req.send();
}
getProjectCount();

ninjagolloyd wrote:

true, thanks

btw did you mean to use backticks?

let name = "Nathan";
let number = 42;
console.log("My name is " + name + ". My favourite number is " + number + ".");

let name = "Nathan";
let number = 42;
console.log(`My name is ${name}. My favourite number is ${number}.`);

nathanprocks wrote:

ninjagolloyd wrote:

true, thanks

btw did you mean to use backticks?

Yes. It's called a template literal. It allows you to include expressions in strings, so instead of doing this:

let name = "Nathan";
let number = 42;
console.log("My name is " + name + ". My favourite number is " + number + ".");

You can use a template literal like this:

let name = "Nathan";
let number = 42;
console.log(`My name is ${name}. My favourite number is ${number}.`);

ninjagolloyd wrote:

would a jquery ajax thingy be any faster/more efficient? you can see i dont do much of this

nathanprocks wrote:

ninjagolloyd wrote:

would a jquery ajax thingy be any faster/more efficient? you can see i dont do much of this

It would be less efficient to load an entire bloated library just to use AJAX. If you want compatibility with older browsers and IE, there are better libraries for that.

ninjagolloyd wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:

ninjagolloyd wrote:

would a jquery ajax thingy be any faster/more efficient? you can see i dont do much of this

It would be less efficient to load an entire bloated library just to use AJAX. If you want compatibility with older browsers and IE, there are better libraries for that.

ok

TheUltimatum wrote:

Best way to do any of this I've found so far is. BeautifulSoup.

__init__ wrote:

TheUltimatum wrote:

Best way to do any of this I've found so far is. BeautifulSoup.

+1. If there isn't an easy way to do something with an API, I use BeautifulSoup.