Cool. Thank you for sharing this.

It’s pretty motivating to know that somebody out there is actually using my tools :)


On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 11:46 PM Jinoy Tom Jacob via Wikitech-l <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
The toolviews API is cool. Have done a small attempt couple of months ago during a workshop for visulize the views based on this API at https://views.toolforge.org/tools/

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On Thu, 21 May 2026 at 22:11, Sohom Datta via Wikitech-l <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
@Bd808: Ooh, this is nice, I did not know about the existence of this service!

I wonder if there is an easy way for the tool view to tell if a view was from a bot?

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On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 12:15 PM Bryan Davis via Wikitech-l <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 11:45 PM Suyash Dwivedi via Wikitech-l
<wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've always been curious about how many people actually visit my Toolforge tools - and I suspect I'm not alone. So I built Toolcounter (https://toolcounter.toolforge.org/), a lightweight, privacy-friendly hit counter designed specifically for Toolforge-hosted tools.
>
> What it tracks
>
> 📄 Page views - counted on every page load (including refreshes). Good for total traffic.
> 👤 Sessions (unique visit approximation) — uses sessionStorage in the visitor's browser. First open in a tab = 1 session. Refresh = not counted again. New tab = counted again. No cookies, no IP, no personal data stored.
>
> Both counts appear separately on the dashboard with a per-day bar chart.
>
> Quick integration (replace YOUR_TOOL and PAGE)
>
> Option 1 - SVG badge (no JS, image only, shows page views):
> <img src="https://toolcounter.toolforge.org/badge.php?tool=YOUR_TOOL&page=PAGE" alt="Page views">
>
> Option 2 - JS embed (shows both views + unique sessions):
> 👁 Views: <span id="tc-views"></span>
> 👤 Unique: <span id="tc-sessions"></span>
> <script src="https://toolcounter.toolforge.org/embed.js.php?tool=YOUR_TOOL&page=PAGE"></script>
>
> An embed code generator is available on the homepage.
>
> Privacy
> The database stores zero personal data, only anonymous counters per (tool, page) pair. No cookies are set. No IP addresses, User-Agent strings, or usernames are ever written to the database. Full privacy policy: https://toolcounter.toolforge.org/privacy.php
>
> Source code is publicly available and open for audit.

Seeing many flowers bloom is great. There is also a system you can use
at https://toolviews.toolforge.org/api/ which attempts to count 2xx
status responses ("hits") for all tools by parsing the access logs
generated at the Toolforge reverse proxy service. That system does not
currently have a nice UI, but it does have data going back to at least
2019 and does not require inserting tracking tokens in your pages.

Bryan
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