gaurav-gogia / VisualRants

A visualization of a subset of DevRant's rant statistics

VisualRants

VisualRants consumes the DevRant API and generates graphs based on a rant's data.

Tech

• StructOpt - Tool to parse command line arguments, based on clap.
• Plotlib - Data plotting and rendering library

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Installing

Building VisualRants requires rustup, version 1.14.0 or more recent. If you have an older version, run rustup self update

Commandline Arguments

• -s SORT sets how you want rants to be sorted. Possible values for sort: recent, algo, top
• -r RANGE sets the time period to fetch rants from. Possible values for range: day, week, month, all
• -l LIMIT sets the number of rants to fetch
• --skip SKIP sets the number of rants to skip. Defaults to zero

To display help, type cargo run -- --help

Examples

The following are some example commands

cargo run -- -s algo -r day -l 50 --skip 1

cargo run -- -r month -s algo -l 20

Screenshots

User upvotes against number of comments on rant

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User upvote count against rant upvote count

Current Work

Save fetched rants to MySQL

License

This is provided under MIT.