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Hi everybody,
I spend the last couple of weeks when I had some free time from my studies to build a website I always wanted to have. Its about stream viewer numbers with detailed graphs showing them. The address is sc2streamnumbers.com and here is how it looks:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/kORsy.png)
What you are seeing now is the change in the viewer number over the last hour. The viewer number gets saved every 5 minutes. You can change that to the view of the last 24 hours, the last week or month. As a graph with a point for every 5 minutes in the last month would be quite crowded (8640 points) the site creates average values for the different time resolutions.
You can also go back and forth in time or switch on the auto update to automaticly retrieve updated graphs. Also there is a search function and a list with the current online streams which contains roughly the same streams as the famous tl list available here.
How its done
For the fellow programmers browsing this forum here is how its done from the technical point of view. The page queries the xml view of the tl stream list every 5 minutes and saves all the relevant data in a postgresql database. It also creates all the average values if needed. This is done by a python script.
The website itself is made with Django, a beautiful python web framework. Also I used Jquery for the ajax calls and elycharts for the graphs. I feel like this is a very powerful software stack.
If you are interested in the server side code just write me a pm and I can give you access to my repository.
Advertising
I am aware that this thread might fall under the advertising rule as I am not a very active tl member and it somewhat promotes a website. But please keep in mind that there are no ads on the site and this serves a very niche interest. I dont even own a company or something similiar and never put advertising on the sites I made.
Have a nice day,
soiii
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Heh, that's pretty neat actually ^^
gj 
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i wouldnt say that you used a "very powerful software stack", more like one that is easy to use, but not that powerful.
nevertheless, i really like what you've done here
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Thanks for the positive feedback so far ^.^ If you found bugs or have ideas what could be changed feel free to post it.
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Looks quite nice. I'd recommend changing 'hour/day/week/month Before' to 'Previous hour/day/week/month'. Having a capital letter for the second word is weird, and it makes more sense to have previous <=> next as opposed to before <=> next in my opinion
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On July 24 2012 05:51 dani` wrote:Looks quite nice. I'd recommend changing 'hour/day/week/month Before' to ' Previous hour/day/week/month'. Having a capital letter for the second word is weird, and it makes more sense to have previous <=> next as opposed to before <=> next in my opinion
Sounds reasonable and got changed.
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looks like a awesome site
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As if you read my Mind O.O
I just looked at the upper right corner of TL.net and thought to myself "I wonder how Stream-Viewer numbers are distributed over time."
Would be awesome if you could implement an overall monitor.
Great work! Always jelly about people with these kind of skills.
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woowowow well done dude.
very nice visually too.
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this is amazing!
sc2 community we are the internet has!
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soiii, that's awesome man! What do you think of adding a Year-to-date button or letting the user set the time parameters?
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I like it! Would be neat with an option to trim times when the person is not streaming and have like a marker in the graph when the person started streaming.
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On July 24 2012 06:37 ridethecatbus wrote:
What do you think of adding a Year-to-date button or letting the user set the time parameters?
Making the time parameters more flexible sounds like a good idea. What exactly do you mean with a Year-to-date button?
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On July 24 2012 06:43 nakam wrote:
I like it! Would be neat with an option to trim times when the person is not streaming and have like a marker in the graph when the person started streaming.
Changing the time interval by cutting off empty time might be rather complicated but I will look into a feature were you can jump to the times when the stream was active.
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I noticed under Weekly/Monthly doesn't have the current day/Up to day stream numbers
I understand if this is intentional but it would be nicer to see the whole month with the last data value being the latest queried entry.
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My personal suggestions that you could add: multiple graphs overlapping each other so that you could compare two streamers, customization (favorites, etc) share of the total number of sc2 (individuals not tournament organizers) streamers and finally an option to display the history of popular offline streamers.
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On July 24 2012 06:46 soiii wrote:Show nested quote +On July 24 2012 06:37 ridethecatbus wrote:
What do you think of adding a Year-to-date button or letting the user set the time parameters? Making the time parameters more flexible sounds like a good idea. What exactly do you mean with a Year-to-date button?
Year-to-date as in 01/01/2012 to today. That or simply a button that shows all of 2012 or 2011.
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On July 24 2012 06:55 Snackysnacks wrote:
I noticed under Weekly/Monthly doesn't have the current day/Up to day stream numbers
I understand if this is intentional but it would be nicer to see the whole month with the last data value being the latest queried entry.
Sounds like a good idea.
On July 24 2012 07:00 archonOOid wrote:
My personal suggestions that you could add: multiple graphs overlapping each other so that you could compare two streamers, share of the sc2 individual streamers and display history of popular offline streamers.
Nice idea but quite complicated to do. Will look into that for the 2.0 version of the site
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On July 24 2012 07:01 ridethecatbus wrote:Show nested quote +On July 24 2012 06:46 soiii wrote:On July 24 2012 06:37 ridethecatbus wrote:
What do you think of adding a Year-to-date button or letting the user set the time parameters? Making the time parameters more flexible sounds like a good idea. What exactly do you mean with a Year-to-date button? Year-to-date as in 01/01/2012 to today. That or simply a button that shows all of 2012 or 2011.
Good idea. That might come in handy when the database grows over time. At the moment it only reaches back for about a month.
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EPT
