Wanted: someone to script StatCounter hack

Bernie Goldbach wondered if we could  "make a Grazr node that shares the pubilc stats information of Irish bloggers who avail that info?" Damien Mulley then asked Aodhan Cullen, CEO of StatCounter, if there was "anyway of aggregating all the Irish Bloggers stats together so we can see as a group where our traffic comes from, how much traffic we get as a group per day etc"

To get the ball rolling I've added Bernie's stats and my own to our blog nodes on the Open Irish Directory (see feed grazer panel in sidebar at left). Just follow this path -

News & Media -> Blogging -> Blogger Feeds

I've also made that node public and open so that anyone can edit it on its OPML Workstation wiki page. Translation? You can add the feeds and stats for your own blogs, del.icio.us and flickr feeds, etc. All I ask is that you make your entry under your real name and in alphabetic order.

Now all we need is someone to volunteer for the task of writing a script to download the public stat summaries and compute the overall blog traffic. Any takers?

Comments

[Aodhan Cullen]

How do you get the relevent StatCounter Project IDs?

[James Corbett]

By sharing them, either via email or the OPML Wiki. Am I mistaken in thinking its that simple?

[Michele]

How's that going to account for the Feedburner users? I read a lot of blogs via RSS primarily, so Statcounter can't "see" me.

[James Corbett]

Its not meant to Michele, we're just biting of the bits we can chew here. I'd imagine Bernie's question sprang from the idea he had while posting about how the "Irish Blogosphere Could Monetise" -

http://irish.typepad.com/irisheyes/2006/08/irish_blogosphe.html#more

[Ken McGuire]

Would it be possible to work in Feedburner stats as well? For those who have the feedburner external access open? I know there's wordpress plugins that can pull in the figure to your dashboard, as well as Feedburner allowing the little buttons for your site, if there was a way of scraping the numbers, adding them up and creating a similar daily output of total blogposts/blogs accessed via Feedburner in Ireland...?

[James Corbett]

Yes, that would be great too Ken. The intention was to start with web stats but of course it would be great to add all the stats we can. :)