Is there a way to access engagement stats for a community to make a (daily) time series? Something along the lines of exporting data ever 24 hours at 2:00 UTC.

This is the data I am referring to:

daily

Perhaps an API of some sort. A formal method that goes beyond writing a scrapper.

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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Community statistics are available from the Lemmy API. For example, this URL returns the info for this community: https://lemm.ee/api/v3/community?name=fedigrow

The community statistics are listed in the returned data under counts:.

The API only returns current numbers, though. To create a time series you need to write a script to grab the community statistics on a regular basis and store the results.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! This seems like the best area for further research.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net

Any chance that historical statistics like these could be incorporated into lemmyverse.net?

[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Funny you say that, I literally made a branch last night looking to add more graphs and stats 😁 I wanted to add some more pretty graphs and improve the inspector page a bit.

It'll probably take a little while but I'll see what I can do 👍👏

Edit, this kinda exists already... https://lemmyverse.net/instance/sh.itjust.works

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Funny you say that, I literally made a branch last night looking to add more graphs and stats 😁

Ha! What a coincidence! It would be great if we could see graphs of the growth of individual communities over time.

It’ll probably take a little while but I’ll see what I can do 👍👏

You're awesome!