Bug Safari Project

[Ben Bonacci]

Hi Nate,

I've recorded the script in action which can be accessed with this link: 
https://benbonacci.com/files/shares/1w-bug-safari-demo.mp4 (Expires in 1 
week)

Regards,

Ben

On 23/7/23 23:43, Nate Graham wrote:
> Very cool stuff. Can we see it in action anywhere?
>
> Nate
>
>
> On 7/23/23 01:38, Ben Bonacci wrote:
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion! Now after each request the script will 
>> wait 1-5 seconds before making the next request.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> On 22/7/23 22:30, Ben Cooksley wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 12:18 AM Ben Bonacci <ben at benbonacci.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi everyone!
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Ben,
>>>
>>>
>>>     For the past few days I've been working on Bug Safari, which is a
>>>     Python
>>>     script that gets statistics for Plasma bugs and sends a report 
>>> to the
>>>     #plasma room on Matrix, which is one of the dot points for KDE's
>>>     Automation goal.
>>>
>>>     I've now got the script uploaded to Invent at
>>> https://invent.kde.org/bbonacci/bug-safari for anyone to look
>>>     over, make
>>>     improvements or implement.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for this, I have just had a quick look over the code and it 
>>> overall looks pretty reasonable, and also follows best practice of 
>>> setting it's own user agent.
>>>
>>> One small suggestion would be to add some small sleeps in to ensure 
>>> that the server endpoints don't get hammered by your requests.
>>> While the script by itself is fairly innocent, if similar scripts 
>>> were added for a series of other channels and they all ran at the 
>>> same time, this could result in a rush on the server that could make 
>>> it inaccessible to normal users (or at the very least impact 
>>> responsiveness).
>>>
>>> Adding some sleeps (ideally for a random number of seconds as people 
>>> tend to pick the same cron times to run stuff on) will ensure this 
>>> doesn't become an issue.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Regards,
>>>
>>>     Ben
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>>     --     Ben Bonacci
>>> https://benbonacci.com
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>>>
>>>     Quote of the Day: "What's the good of living if you don't try a
>>>     few things?" - Charles M. Schulz
>>>
>> -- 
>> Ben Bonacci
>> https://benbonacci.com
>> C0A9 E67F 8CDC B1A1 0860 1807 E018 065C C7DF 3976
>>
>> Quote of the Day: "If you only read the books that everyone else is 
>> reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Haruki 
>> Murakami
>>
-- 
Ben Bonacci
https://benbonacci.com
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