| | 1 | NewsStats 0.1 (c) 2010-2013 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> |
| | 2 | |
| | 3 | NewsStats is a software package for gathering statistical data live |
| | 4 | from a Usenet feed and subsequent examination. |
| | 5 | |
| | 6 | This script package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
| | 7 | modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License as published by |
| | 8 | the Free Software Foundation. |
| | 9 | |
| | 10 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| | 11 | |
| | 12 | What's that? |
| | 13 | |
| | 14 | There's a multitude of tools for the statistical examination of |
| | 15 | newsgroups: number of postings per month or per person, longest |
| | 16 | threads, and so on (see <http://th-h.de/infos/usenet/stats.php> |
| | 17 | [German language] for an incomplete list). Most of them use a per- |
| | 18 | newsgroup approach while NewsStats is hierarchy oriented. |
| | 19 | |
| | 20 | NewsStats will accumulate data from a live INN feed, allowing you |
| | 21 | to process the saved information later on. |
| | 22 | |
| | 23 | Workflow |
| | 24 | |
| | 25 | NewsStats saves overview data and complete headers of (all) |
| | 26 | incoming postings to a (MySQL) database in real time. |
| | 27 | |
| | 28 | That raw data will be regularly - e.g. monthly - processed to a |
| | 29 | second set of database tables each dedicated to a certain |
| | 30 | statistical aspect, e.g. number of postings per group and month. |
| | 31 | |
| | 32 | Several kinds of reports can then be generated from those result |
| | 33 | tables. |
| | 34 | |
| | 35 | Prerequisites |
| | 36 | |
| | 37 | NewsStats is written in Perl (5.8.x and above) and makes use of a |
| | 38 | MySQL database, so you will need Perl, some modules, mysql and, of |
| | 39 | course, INN. |
| | 40 | |
| | 41 | * Perl 5.8.x with standard modules |
| | 42 | - Cwd |
| | 43 | - File::Basename |
| | 44 | - Sys::Syslog |
| | 45 | |
| | 46 | * Perl modules form CPAN |
| | 47 | - Config::Auto |
| | 48 | - Date::Format |
| | 49 | - DBI |
| | 50 | - Mail::Address |
| | 51 | |
| | 52 | * mysql 5.0.x |
| | 53 | |
| | 54 | * working installation of INN |
| | 55 | |
| | 56 | Installation instructions |
| | 57 | |
| | 58 | See INSTALL. |
| | 59 | |
| | 60 | Getting Started |
| | 61 | |
| | 62 | 'feedlog.pl' will continuously feed raw data to your raw data |
| | 63 | table. See the feedlog.pl man page for more information. |
| | 64 | |
| | 65 | You can process that data via 'gatherstats.pl'; currently only the |
| | 66 | tabulation of postings per group and month is supported. More to |
| | 67 | come. See the gatherstats.pl man page for more information. |
| | 68 | |
| | 69 | Report generation is handled by specialised scripts for each |
| | 70 | report type. Currently only reports on the number of postings per |
| | 71 | group and month are supported; you can use 'groupstats.pl' for |
| | 72 | this. See the groupstats.pl man page for more information. |
| | 73 | |
| | 74 | Reporting Bugs |
| | 75 | |
| | 76 | You can report bugs or feature requests to the author using the |
| | 77 | bug tracker at <http://bugs.th-h.de/>. |
| | 78 | |
| | 79 | Please have a look at the TODO list before suggesting |
| | 80 | improvements. |
| | 81 | |
| | 82 | More Information |
| | 83 | |
| | 84 | This program is maintained using the Git version control system. |
| | 85 | You may clone <git://code.th-h.de/usenet/newsstats.git> to check |
| | 86 | out the current development tree or browse it on the web via |
| | 87 | <http://code.th-h.de/?p=usenet/newsstats.git>. |
| | 88 | |
| | 89 | Related projects |
| | 90 | |
| | 91 | <http://usenet.dex.de/> is a site were data gathered via NewsStats |
| | 92 | is used for a graphical presentation of activity in the de.* |
| | 93 | Usenet hierarchy over the years (since 1992). |
| | 94 | |
| | 95 | Author |
| | 96 | |
| | 97 | Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> |
| | 98 | <http://th-h.de/> |
| | 99 | |
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