I'll pull all the information on your stories for you

[8letters]

I've taught the gerbils some new tricks, and now I can get all the information on Literotica associated with your stories. PM me an email address and a link to your submissions page, and I'll email you four text files: a list of your stories with more statistics than what shows up on your Works page, a list of all the comments on your stories, a list of all the similar stories for your stories, and a summary of the gender and orientation of your commenters per their bio.

 

[alohadave]

How are you getting the information? Why not tell us how to access the information directly?

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

Dunno about romantic, but you sure are an I.T. writer, 8letters

 

[NotWise]

I've taught the gerbils some new tricks, and now I can get all the information on Literotica associated with your stories. PM me an email address and a link to your submissions page, and I'll email you four text files: a list of your stories with more statistics than what shows up on your Works page, a list of all the comments on your stories, a list of all the similar stories for your stories, and a summary of the gender and orientation of your commenters per their bio.

What statistics are you offering that don't appear on the works page?

 

[8letters]

How are you getting the information?

Gerbils.

Why not tell us how to access the information directly?

Go to your submissions page. Click on the first story. Look at all the information there. Rinse and repeat.

 

[oggbashan]

I think your gerbils might protest at my 500+ works.

 

[8letters]

I think your gerbils might protest at my 500+ works.

A while back, they pulled every single Lesbian Sex story. Give them some food, and they'll endlessly chomp away.

 

[Voboy]

What statistics are you offering that don't appear on the works page?

…this.

 

[MelissaBaby]

No offense to 8letters, but I am not cool with people not employed by the site being able to access information about my stories that I can not access for myself.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Query gerbils?

 

[BobbyBrandt]

No offense to 8letters, but I am not cool with people not employed by the site being able to access information about my stories that I can not access for myself.

I'm pretty sure that you could access the same information, it would just be burdensome to do so for each story individually. Developing a data query routine and running it for all stories just automates the process.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I'm pretty sure that you could access the same information, it would just be burdensome to do so for each story individually. Developing a data query routine and running it for all stories just automates the process.

Great. Where is it?

 

[8letters]

What statistics are you offering that don't appear on the works page?

There's a lot, but nothing you can't get from looking at your own stories. How many comments are from anonymous commenters. How many comments are from you. How many comments are missing. Etc.

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

You could pack them into an input tensor for your custom BERT network and never need to write another story.

 

[SimonDoom]

No offense to 8letters, but I am not cool with people not employed by the site being able to access information about my stories that I can not access for myself.

I don't think he's saying that. If I understand him correctly, the information he's gathering is information that anyone, with sufficient time, could gather about your stories. The information is out there already; it's just not easily available in an aggregate form.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I don't think he's saying that. If I understand him correctly, the information he's gathering is information that anyone, with sufficient time, could gather about your stories. The information is out there already; it's just not easily available in an aggregate form.

I understand that, but I would like to know how to do it myself. I appreciate 8L's offer, but I am not going to want to have to ask him again every time I put up a new story.

 

[SimonDoom]

I understand that, but I would like to know how to do it myself. I appreciate 8L's offer, but I am not going to want to have to ask him again every time I put up a new story.

Fair. I don't know why one would want to keep that secret. It's not like he's going to get paid for it.

 

[JGittes]

A tremendous amount of data is hidden in the individual pages' meta files, the raw HTML stuff. There have been a couple of threads where someone has shown how to display it. Bramblethorn would be able to tell us how it's done. You need to care about aggregating it and, of course, know how to work with it.

 

[MrPixel]

What I'm getting from this is simply a clumsy way of offering use of a tool for compiling statistics about your works. Let me rephrase this for @8letters :

"Hey guys, I've written this nifty script that gathers information about your LitE readership across your published works that puts it all in a handy-dandy report. Contact me if you're interested and I'll run it on your stuff for you."

 

[Comshaw]

I've taught the gerbils some new tricks, and now I can get all the information on Literotica associated with your stories. PM me an email address and a link to your submissions page, and I'll email you four text files: a list of your stories with more statistics than what shows up on your Works page, a list of all the comments on your stories, a list of all the similar stories for your stories, and a summary of the gender and orientation of your commenters per their bio.

Thanks for the info on my stories. It's interesting. While most of it was info I could find, it was a pain in the posterior to put together (for me at least). It's nice to have it in one spreadsheet at my fingertips. Thanks again.

Comshaw

 

[Defluer]

Under the Comments, intId and strCommenter? I'd assume intId probably means something like Internal ID of the comment, but I don't have a guess on the strCommenter.

 

[Priscilla_June]

Thanks for doing this!

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

int and str means that Id is an integer, and Commenter is a "string" -- a sequence of letters, i.e. some text.
It's how tekky's name spreadsheet columns

 

[Comshaw]

I understand that, but I would like to know how to do it myself. I appreciate 8L's offer, but I am not going to want to have to ask him again every time I put up a new story.

Simple enough. You go to each story and laboriously input each piece of data by hand into a spreadsheet. Maybe, after a few days or weeks (if you don't miss some) you'll have all your stories specs at hand. Or sit down and learn how to write a script to go in and gather the data and save it to a spreadsheet. Once the script is written enter a few parameters for the data and "whoosh!" you got it on the screen.

Or take the easy, lazy way (like I did) and let 8L's script do the work.

Choose wisely

Comshaw

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

I understand your hesitancy, Melissa. If I'd written that script, I'd actually post it here, and make it "open source", so other people can check what it does.