follower-stats

This script returns the domains and what percentage of your followers belong to them.

Dependencies

• lua (>=5.1)
• lua-requests

Install

• Install luarocks
• You need luarocks >=3.0 to follow the following install instructions

Method one

• Download and install using the rockspec directly from the repository: sudo luarocks install https://git.kokolor.es/imo/follower-stats/raw/branch/master/follower-stats-dev-1.rockspec
• The script should be installed in /usr/local/bin/, so you can use it like this: follower-stats user@domain.tld
• You can also use the --local option, if you don't want to install it global. If you do so, the script is install in ~/.luarocks/ and you have to use the full path to use it

Method two

• Clone this git
• Change into the cloned folder
• Install dependencies:

luarocks init
luarocks init --reset
luarocks build --only-deps

Note: If the build process of the xml module fails, because it can't find the libstdc++ library, you have to specify the path to the library like this: luarocks build --only-deps STDCPP_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5 (this path works for me at Ubuntu 16.04)

• After the installation is complete you can run it like this: ./lua follower-stats.lua user@domain.tld

After a few seconds you should get an output similar to this:

Percentage overview for followers:
 muh.social: 80.00%
 humu.social: 10.00%
 ...
Percentage overview for following:
 humu.social: 30.00%
 muh.social: 60.00%
 ...

Works with

• Pleroma (if everyone is allowed to see your followers and who you follow)

TODO

• Authentication to work with Mastodon and Pleroma (to get the stats even if followers and followees are hidden)
• Maybe find a cleaner way to find out the user id
• Clean up