commit 5d435a1e30af91fb5d527df7a23d303da5ec834b
Author: rscmbbng <rscmbbng@riseup.net>
Date:   Sun Dec 2 13:10:24 2018 +0100

    initial commit

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+
+Log availability and stats of <solar.lowtechmagazine.com>
+
+You need:
+    python3
+    tinydb
+
+You get:
+    solar_server_logs/{day}-stats.json
+
+Run it every 30 mins
+????
+Stats
diff --git a/slog.py b/slog.py
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+import urllib.request, json, datetime,os
+from urllib.error import URLError, HTTPError
+from tinydb import TinyDB, Query
+
+folder = 'solar_server_stats'
+now = datetime.datetime.now()
+day = now.strftime('%F')
+url = 'https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/api/stats.json'
+
+if not os.path.exists(folder):
+    os.mkdir(folder)
+
+db = TinyDB(os.path.join(folder,day+'-stats.json'))
+
+
+request = urllib.request.Request(url)
+
+stats = {}
+
+try:
+	response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
+
+except HTTPError as e:
+    print('The server couldn\'t fulfill the request.')
+    print('Error code: ', e.code)
+    error = e.code
+    stats['server'] = None
+    pass
+except URLError as e:
+    print('We failed to reach a server.')
+    print('Reason: ', e.reason)
+    error = e.reason
+    stats['server'] = None
+    pass
+
+
+else:
+    # everything is fine
+    data = response.read().decode('utf-8')
+    stats['server'] = json.loads(data)
+    error = None
+
+if error:
+    stats['error'] = error.args[1]
+else:
+    stats['error'] = error
+
+stats['day'] = day
+stats['time'] = now.strftime('%H:%M')
+
+db.insert(stats)
+