I made a little neat scratch user statistics site that you can find here!
https://scratchstats.pages.dev

Feel free to suggest any potential ideas or improvements you would like to see on the site!

Q&A:
Q: Why don't you add user follower count
A: Scratch has an inefficient system which does not have an endpoint for simply the follower count. Instead the inefficient solution would be fetch:
api.scratch.mit.edu/users/griffpatch/followers

Which returns the first 20 of @griffpatch's followers which also returns the data for the users as well. You can use as an example ‘?offset=21’ to get the next 20. Then after we continue grabbing more users, we offset it by 21 each time. Before then finally getting the length of the jsons in the array. As you can imagine this will be a problem, assuming @griffpatch has approx. 600k followers, we'd have to make nearly 30,000 API requests for just one user! This is the reason why I have not implemented follower count yet. Please let me know if there are any better methods out there!

Example:

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A faster way to get the follower count would be to use a binary search. We know the user must have between 0 and 600,000 followers. So first check if the user has 300,000 followers, if not, check 150,000, if yes, check 450,000, and repeat. Actually, since we know that the follower count of users on Scratch is not uniform, we could approximate the distribution as exponential maybe and take the quantiles instead.

Btw, you can also do https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/SSSouple/followers/?limit=40&offset=0 to get 40 users instead of 20

this is a pretty cool website! one thing though, can you add a dark mode? kinda hurts my eyes looking at this white..

IAmANewbieTrustMe wrote:

this is a pretty cool website! one thing though, can you add a dark mode? kinda hurts my eyes looking at this white..




also griffpatch fell off /j

I'd be happy to add that!

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This is awesome! My buddy @DuckGoose9254 showed me it and I gotta say, I love the nostalgic theming of the site! I will be bookmarking it and checking for updates. Keep up the good work

Oh, one last thing. When you do eventually add follower counts, will you be adding ranks? (ex: 1,000th most followed globally, 232nd in country, etc)

I love this site. If possible, would you be able to load more than 5 projects in each row? That would add a lot to the site!

Thanks!!

it doesn't work for me

core1223e wrote:

It is blocked for me

Try this instead!

-sbossbattle_ wrote:

it doesn't work for me

Could you elaborate?

Looks great and I really like the design! I’d love to see global and regional follower rankings too as @NightCat28 said, but it’s still awesome

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SSSouple wrote:

core1223e wrote:

It is blocked for me

Try this instead!

it blocked for me on that website

cool site! my suggestions are: top user/project rankings (suggested by few already), and heart-to-view ratio (and ranking) (like this one here, another scratch stats site I found!). other than that, sweet!

Number of Comments probably.

oh, if you can put follower count eventually, make it so you can see how connected to any Scratcher

eg,. This person follows you, which has this person following them, which has griffpatch following them.

And you're most famous followers as well!

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Could you add a message count like: https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/griffpatch/messages/count