#! /usr/bin/perl # # clientstats.pl # # This script will get statistical data on newsreader (client) usage # from a database. # # It is part of the NewsStats package. # # Copyright (c) 2025 Thomas Hochstein # # It can be redistributed and/or modified under the same terms under # which Perl itself is published. BEGIN { use File::Basename; # we're in .../bin, so our module is in ../lib push(@INC, dirname($0).'/../lib'); } use strict; use warnings; use NewsStats qw(:DEFAULT :TimePeriods :Output :SQLHelper ReadGroupList); use DBI; use Getopt::Long qw(GetOptions); Getopt::Long::config ('bundling'); ################################# Main program ################################# ### read commandline options my ($OptCaptions,$OptComments,$OptDB,$OptFileTemplate,$OptFormat, $OptGroupBy,$LowBound,$OptMonth,$OptNames,$OptOrderBy, $OptReportType,$OptSums,$UppBound,$OptVersions,$OptConfFile); GetOptions ('c|captions!' => \$OptCaptions, 'comments!' => \$OptComments, 'db=s' => \$OptDB, 'filetemplate=s' => \$OptFileTemplate, 'f|format=s' => \$OptFormat, 'g|group-by=s' => \$OptGroupBy, 'l|lower=i' => \$LowBound, 'm|month=s' => \$OptMonth, 'n|names=s' => \$OptNames, 'o|order-by=s' => \$OptOrderBy, 'r|report=s' => \$OptReportType, 's|sums!' => \$OptSums, 'u|upper=i' => \$UppBound, 'v|versions!' => \$OptVersions, 'conffile=s' => \$OptConfFile, 'h|help' => \&ShowPOD, 'V|version' => \&ShowVersion) or exit 1; # parse parameters # $OptComments defaults to TRUE if --filetemplate is not used $OptComments = 1 if (!$OptFileTemplate && !defined($OptComments)); # parse $OptReportType if ($OptReportType) { if ($OptReportType =~ /sums?/i) { $OptReportType = 'sum'; } else { $OptReportType = 'default'; } } ### read configuration my %Conf = %{ReadConfig($OptConfFile)}; ### set DBTable $Conf{'DBTable'} = $Conf{'DBTableClnts'}; $Conf{'DBTable'} = $OptDB if $OptDB; ### init database my $DBHandle = InitDB(\%Conf,1); ### get time period and names, prepare SQL 'WHERE' clause # get time period # and set caption for output and expression for SQL 'WHERE' clause my ($CaptionPeriod,$SQLWherePeriod) = &GetTimePeriod($OptMonth); # bail out if --month is invalid &Bleat(2,"--month option has an invalid format - ". "please use 'YYYY-MM', 'YYYY-MM:YYYY-MM' or 'ALL'!") if !$CaptionPeriod; # get list of clients and set expression for SQL 'WHERE' clause # with placeholders as well as a list of names to bind to them my ($SQLWhereNames,@SQLBindNames); if ($OptNames) { ($SQLWhereNames,@SQLBindNames) = &SQLGroupList($OptNames,'client'); # bail out if --names is invalid &Bleat(2,"--names option has an invalid format!") if !$SQLWhereNames; } ### build SQL WHERE clause my $ExcludeSums = $OptSums ? '' : "client != 'ALL'"; my $SQLWhereClause = SQLBuildClause('where',$SQLWherePeriod,$SQLWhereNames, $ExcludeSums,"version = 'ALL'", &SQLSetBounds('default',$LowBound,$UppBound)); ### get sort order and build SQL 'ORDER BY' clause # force to 'month' for $OptReportType 'sum' $OptGroupBy = 'month' if ($OptReportType and $OptReportType ne 'default'); # default to 'name' if $OptGroupBy is not set and # just one name is requested, but more than one month $OptGroupBy = 'name' if (!$OptGroupBy and $OptMonth and $OptMonth =~ /:/ and $OptNames and $OptNames !~ /[:*%]/); # parse $OptGroupBy to $GroupBy, create ORDER BY clause $SQLOrderClause # if $OptGroupBy is still not set, SQLSortOrder() will default to 'month' my ($GroupBy,$SQLOrderClause) = SQLSortOrder($OptGroupBy, $OptOrderBy, 'client, version'); # $GroupBy will contain 'month' or 'client, version' (parsed result of $OptGroupBy) # set it to 'month' or 'key' for OutputData() $GroupBy = ($GroupBy eq 'month') ? 'month' : 'key'; ### get report type and build SQL 'SELECT' query my $SQLSelect; my $SQLGroupClause = ''; if ($OptReportType and $OptReportType ne 'default') { $SQLGroupClause = "GROUP BY client, version"; # change $SQLOrderClause: replace everything before 'postings' $SQLOrderClause =~ s/BY.+postings/BY postings/; $SQLSelect = "'All months',LEFT(client,40),SUM(postings)"; # change $SQLOrderClause: replace 'postings' with 'SUM(postings)' $SQLOrderClause =~ s/postings/SUM(postings)/; } else { $SQLSelect = "month,LEFT(client,40),postings"; }; ### get length of longest name delivered by query ### for formatting purposes my $Field = ($GroupBy eq 'month') ? 'LEFT(client,40)' : 'month'; my ($MaxLength,$MaxValLength) = &GetMaxLength($DBHandle,$Conf{'DBTable'}, $Field,'postings',$SQLWhereClause, '',@SQLBindNames); ### build and execute SQL query my ($DBQuery); # prepare query $DBQuery = $DBHandle->prepare(sprintf('SELECT %s FROM %s.%s %s %s %s', $SQLSelect, $Conf{'DBDatabase'},$Conf{'DBTable'}, $SQLWhereClause,$SQLGroupClause, $SQLOrderClause)); # execute query $DBQuery->execute(@SQLBindNames) or &Bleat(2,sprintf("Can't get client data for %s from %s.%s: %s\n", $CaptionPeriod,$Conf{'DBDatabase'},$Conf{'DBTable'}, $DBI::errstr)); ### output results # set default to 'pretty' $OptFormat = 'pretty' if !$OptFormat; # print captions if --caption is set my $LeadIn; if ($OptCaptions && $OptComments) { # print time period with report type my $CaptionReportType = '(number of postings for each month)'; if ($OptReportType and $OptReportType ne 'default') { $CaptionReportType = '(number of all postings for that time period)'; } $LeadIn .= sprintf("# ----- Report for %s %s\n",$CaptionPeriod,$CaptionReportType); # print name list if --names is set $LeadIn .= sprintf("# ----- Names: %s\n",join(',',split(/:/,$OptNames))) if $OptNames; # print boundaries, if set my $CaptionBoundary= '(counting only months fulfilling this condition)'; $LeadIn .= sprintf("# ----- Threshold: %s %s x %s %s %s\n", $LowBound ? $LowBound : '',$LowBound ? '=>' : '', $UppBound ? '<=' : '',$UppBound ? $UppBound : '',$CaptionBoundary) if ($LowBound or $UppBound); # print primary and secondary sort order $LeadIn .= sprintf("# ----- Grouped by %s (%s), sorted %s%s\n", ($GroupBy eq 'month') ? 'Months' : 'Names', ($OptGroupBy and $OptGroupBy =~ /-?desc$/i) ? 'descending' : 'ascending', ($OptOrderBy and $OptOrderBy =~ /posting/i) ? 'by number of postings ' : '', ($OptOrderBy and $OptOrderBy =~ /-?desc$/i) ? 'descending' : 'ascending'); } # output data # (changed code copy from NewsStats::OutputData) my ($LastIteration, $FileName, $Handle, $OUT); # define output types my %LegalOutput; @LegalOutput{('dump','list','pretty')} = (); # bail out if format is unknown &Bleat(2,"Unknown output type '$OptFormat'!") if !exists($LegalOutput{$OptFormat}); while (my ($Month, $Key, $Value) = $DBQuery->fetchrow_array) { # save client for later use my $Client = $Key; # care for correct sorting order and abstract from month and keys: # $Caption will be $Month or $Key, according to sorting order, # and $Key will be $Key or $Month, respectively my $Caption; if ($GroupBy eq 'key') { $Caption = $Key; $Key = $Month; } else { $Caption = $Month; } # set output file handle if (!$OptFileTemplate) { $Handle = *STDOUT{IO}; # set $Handle to a reference to STDOUT } elsif (!defined($LastIteration) or $LastIteration ne $Caption) { close $OUT if ($LastIteration); # safeguards for filename creation: # replace potential problem characters with '_' $FileName = sprintf('%s-%s',$OptFileTemplate,$Caption); $FileName =~ s/[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]+/_/g; open ($OUT,">$FileName") or &Bleat(2,sprintf("Cannot open output file '%s': $!", $FileName)); $Handle = $OUT; }; print $Handle &FormatOutput($OptFormat, $OptComments, $LeadIn, $Caption, $Key, $Value, 0, $MaxLength, $MaxValLength, $LastIteration); # output client versions if ($OptVersions) { ### get client versions # $SQLWhereClause without 'ALL' version $SQLWhereClause = SQLBuildClause('where',$SQLWherePeriod,$SQLWhereNames, $ExcludeSums,"version != 'ALL'","client = '$Client'", &SQLSetBounds('default',$LowBound,$UppBound)); # save length of longest client my $ClientMaxLenght = $MaxLength; my $ClientMaxValLenght = $MaxValLength; # get length of longest version delivered by query # for formatting purposes my ($MaxLength,$MaxValLength) = &GetMaxLength($DBHandle,$Conf{'DBTable'}, 'version','postings',$SQLWhereClause, '',@SQLBindNames); if ($MaxLength) { # add lenght of '- ' $MaxLength += 2; # set to length of longest client, if longer $MaxLength = $ClientMaxLenght if $ClientMaxLenght > $MaxLength; $MaxValLength = $ClientMaxValLenght if $ClientMaxValLenght > $MaxValLength; } # prepare query my $DBVersQuery = $DBHandle->prepare(sprintf('SELECT version,postings FROM %s.%s %s %s %s', $Conf{'DBDatabase'},$Conf{'DBTable'}, $SQLWhereClause,$SQLGroupClause, $SQLOrderClause)); # execute query $DBVersQuery->execute(@SQLBindNames) or &Bleat(2,sprintf("Can't get version data for %s from %s.%s: %s\n", $CaptionPeriod,$Conf{'DBDatabase'},$Conf{'DBTable'}, $DBI::errstr)); # output versions while (my ($Version, $Postings) = $DBVersQuery->fetchrow_array) { $Version = '- ' . $Version; print $Handle &FormatOutput($OptFormat, $OptComments, $LeadIn, '', $Version, $Postings, 0, $MaxLength, $MaxValLength, ''); } } $LastIteration = $Caption; }; close $OUT if ($OptFileTemplate); ### close handles $DBHandle->disconnect; __END__ ################################ Documentation ################################# =head1 NAME clientstats - create reports on client usage =head1 SYNOPSIS B [B<-Vhcs> B<--comments>] [B<-m> I[:I] | I] [B<-n> I] [B<-r> I] [B<-l> I] [B<-u> I] [B<-g> I] [B<-o> I] [B<-f> I] [B<--filetemplate> I] [B<--db> I] [B<--conffile> I] =head1 REQUIREMENTS See L. =head1 DESCRIPTION This script create reports on newsgroup usage (number of postings using each client per month) taken from result tables created by B. =head2 Features and options =head3 Time period and names The time period to act on defaults to last month; you can assign another time period or a single month (or drop all time constraints) via the B<--month> option (see below). B will process all clients by default; you can limit processing to only some clients by supplying a list of those names by using the B<--names> option (see below). =head3 Report type You can choose between different B<--report> types: postings per month or all postings summed up; for details, see below. =head3 Upper and lower boundaries Furthermore you can set an upper and/or lower boundary to exclude some results from output via the B<--lower> and B<--upper> options, respectively. By default, all clients with more and/or less postings per month will be excluded from the result set (i.e. not shown and not considered for sum reports). =head3 Sorting and formatting the output By default, all results are grouped by month; you can group results by clients instead via the B<--group-by> option. Within those groups, the list of clients (or months) is sorted alphabetically (or chronologically, respectively) ascending. You can change that order (and sort by number of postings) with the B<--order-by> option. For details and exceptions, please see below. The results will be formatted as a kind of table; you can change the output format to a simple list or just a list of names and number of postings with the B<--format> option. Captions will be added by means of the B<--caption> option; all comments (and captions) can be supressed by using B<--nocomments>. Last but not least you can redirect all output to a number of files, e.g. one for each month, by submitting the B<--filetemplate> option, see below. =head2 Configuration B will read its configuration from F which should be present in etc/ via Config::Auto or from a configuration file submitted by the B<--conffile> option. See doc/INSTALL for an overview of possible configuration options. You can override some configuration options via the B<--db> option. =head1 OPTIONS =over 3 =item B<-V>, B<--version> Print out version and copyright information and exit. =item B<-h>, B<--help> Print this man page and exit. =item B<-m>, B<--month> I Set processing period to a single month in YYYY-MM format or to a time period between two month in YYYY-MM:YYYY-MM format (two month, separated by a colon). By using the keyword I instead, you can set no processing period to process the whole database. =item B<-n>, B<--names> I Limit processing to a certain set of client names. I can be a single name (eternal-september.org), a group of names (*.inka.de) or a list of either of these, separated by colons, for example eternal-september.org:solani.org:*.inka.de =item B<-s>, B<--sums|--nosums> (sum per month) Include "virtual" clients named "ALL" for every month in output, containing the sum of all detected clients for that month. =item B<-r>, B<--report> I Choose the report type: I or I By default, B will report the number of postings for each client in each month. But it can also report the total sum of postings per client for all months. For report type I, the B option has no meaning and will be silently ignored (see below). =item B<-l>, B<--lower> I Set the lower boundary. See below. =item B<-l>, B<--upper> I Set the upper boundary. By default, all clients with more postings per month than the upper boundary and/or less postings per month than the lower boundary will be excluded from further processing. For the default report that means each month only /clients with a number of postings between the boundaries will be displayed. For the sums report, /clients with a number of postings exceeding the boundaries in all (!) months will not be considered. =item B<-g>, B<--group-by> I By default, all results are grouped by month, sorted chronologically in ascending order, like this: # ----- 2012-01: arcor-online.net : 9379 individual.net : 19525 news.albasani.net: 9063 # ----- 2012-02: arcor-online.net : 8606 individual.net : 16768 news.albasani.net: 7879 The results can be grouped by client instead via B<--group-by> I: ----- individual.net 2012-01: 19525 2012-02: 16768 ----- arcor-online.net 2012-01: 9379 2012-02: 8606 ----- news.albasani.net 2012-01: 9063 2012-02: 7879 By appending I<-desc> to the group-by option parameter, you can reverse the sort order - e.g. B<--group-by> I will give: # ----- 2012-02: arcor-online.net : 8606 individual.net : 16768 news.albasani.net: 7879 # ----- 2012-01: arcor-online.net : 9379 individual.net : 19525 news.albasani.net: 9063 Sums reports (see above) will always be grouped by months; this option will therefore be ignored. =item B<-o>, B<--order-by> I Within each group (a single month or single client, see above), the report will be sorted by name (or month) in ascending alphabetical order by default. You can change the sort order to descending or sort by number of postings instead. =item B<-f>, B<--format> I Select the output format, I being the default: # ----- 2012-01: arcor-online.net : 9379 individual.net : 19525 # ----- 2012-02: arcor-online.net : 8606 individual.net : 16768 I format looks like this: 2012-01 arcor-online.net 9379 2012-01 individual.net 19525 2012-02 arcor-online.net 8606 2012-02 individual.net 16768 And I format looks like this: # 2012-01: arcor-online.net 9379 individual.net 19525 # 2012-02: arcor-online.net 8606 individual.net 16768 You can remove the comments by using B<--nocomments>, see below. =item B<-c>, B<--captions|--nocaptions> Add captions to output, like this: ----- Report for 2012-01 to 2012-02 (number of postings for each month) ----- Names: individual.net ----- Threshold: 8000 => x (counting only month fulfilling this condition) ----- Grouped by Month (ascending), sorted by number of postings descending False by default. =item B<--comments|--nocomments> Add comments (group headers) to I and I output. True by default as logn as B<--filetemplate> is not set. Use I<--nocomments> to suppress anything except client names or months and numbers of postings. =item B<--filetemplate> I Save output to file(s) instead of dumping it to STDOUT. B will create one file for each month (or each client, according to the setting of B<--group-by>, see above), with filenames composed by adding year and month (or client names) to the I, for example with B<--filetemplate> I: stats-2012-01 stats-2012-02 ... and so on =item B<--db> I Override I or I from F. =item B<--conffile> I Load configuration from I instead of F. =back =head1 INSTALLATION See L. =head1 EXAMPLES Show number of postings per group for lasth month in I format: clientstats Show that report for January of 2010 and *.inka plus individual.net: clientstats --month 2010-01 --names *.inka:individual.net: Only show clients with 30 postings or less last month, ordered by number of postings, descending, in I format: clientstats --upper 30 --order-by postings-desc List number of postings per host for each month of 2010 and redirect output to one file for each month, named hosts-2010-01 and so on, in machine-readable form (without formatting): clientstats -m 2010-01:2010-12 -f dump --filetemplate hosts =head1 FILES =over 4 =item F The script itself. =item F Library functions for the NewsStats package. =item F Runtime configuration file. =back =head1 BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests to the author or use the bug tracker at L! =head1 SEE ALSO =over 2 =item - L =item - L =item - gatherstats -h =back This script is part of the B package. =head1 AUTHOR Thomas Hochstein =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (c) 2025 Thomas Hochstein This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut