Printables.com - how to get profile stats easily?
I find there is no way to get profile stats easily because of all the Web 2.0 / 3.0 "stuff" going on when rendering the page.
I desire an easy way to pull downloads and likes from my user profile to display on internal shop displays (like LED message board, or LaMetric, or oversized 3D printed 7-segment displays, etc.)
For example, current profile URL is like: https://www.printables.com/social/00000-username/about
and I propose new URLs that simply return numbers for easy scraping without taxing your webserver, such as...
https://www.printables.com/social/00000-username/about/downloads ... HTML returns simply "451"
or
https://www.printables.com/social/00000-username/about/likes ... HTML returns simply "34"
HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons
Some of the information on your profile is, at least in theory, subject to GDPR privacy protection. So it's all behind a login wall. If you want to scrape it you will need to set up a two step, login then scrape, procedure.
Cheerio,
RE: Printables.com - how to get profile stats easily?
just as a heads up, I did pass along this suggestion to our web development team and they will look into it
Shane (AKA FromPrusa)
RE: Printables.com - how to get profile stats easily?
it would also be nice to have a statistic for every single model published, more or less like that of tv, even in json format