Just save this as karma.py and run it with Python 3.6 or higher.
import requests
import math
INSTANCE_URL = "https://feddit.de"
TARGET_USER = "ENTER_YOUR_USERNAME_HERE"
LIMIT_PER_PAGE = 50
l = Lemmy(INSTANCE_URL)
res = requests.get(f"{INSTANCE_URL}/api/v3/user?username={TARGET_USER}&limit={LIMIT_PER_PAGE}").json()
totalPostScore = 0
totalCommentScore = 0
page = 1
while len(res["posts"])+len(res["comments"]) > 0:
totalPostScore += sum([ x["counts"]["score"] for x in res["posts"] ])
totalCommentScore += sum([ x["counts"]["score"] for x in res["comments"] ])
page += 1
res = requests.get(f"{INSTANCE_URL}/api/v3/user?username={TARGET_USER}&limit={LIMIT_PER_PAGE}&page={page}").json()
print("Post karma: ", totalPostScore)
print("Comment karma: ", totalCommentScore)
print("Total karma: ", totalPostScore+totalCommentScore)
I’m with you (and I hope my post didn’t come of as too harsh … you’re making tools for users which is awesome!).
And you’re right to point out that this is just for personal use. And karma is useful for letting you know how your communities feel about you. For me, I scroll through my posts in my profile page and just scan the scores to get a feel for whether I’ve pissed anyone off gotten some traction for some reason.
If someone is posting more often than me, I can see how your tool would be useful.
Still, I feel there are questions to be asked about whether it’s healthy, but that’s me … you do you!!
Also … kbin actually has a karma feature like on reddit. You might find it useful.
I am spending too much time on Lemmy as is :)
What I really found interesting, also compared to Reddit, is how few of my posts/comments actually have downvotes.
Yea … it’s interesting isn’t it … what happens when the “engagement rage” is taken out of the room.
Politeness and consideration … helluva drug!
For instance, I disliked the push to bring a reddit feature to here, mostly out of a feeling that there might be a bit too much “lets keep this is much like reddit as possible” developing, just enough to think about downvoting this post for a second, but realised it would have way too mean and that a post expressing my disagreement was plenty while you were doing genuinely interesting and useful work.
On reddit, sadly, I probably would have downvoted, moved on and not thought twice.