I just came across this script by Jabba Laci to download your posts from WordPress. It reminded me that I wanted to see how many words I have written to my blog so far. Maybe it’s just because I’m still new to WordPress, but I haven’t seen a total word count anywhere. Here’s the modified script:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import division
import xmlrpclib
MAX_POSTS = 100
server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('https://YOUR_BLOG_ADDRESS.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php')
result = server.metaWeblog.getRecentPosts('YOUR_BLOG_ADDRESS', 'YOUR_USERNAME', 'YOUR_PASSWORD', MAX_POSTS)
numPosts = len(result)
numWords = 0
for post in result:
numWords += len(post['description'].split())
avgWords = numWords/numPosts
print """Total Posts: %d
Total Words: %d
Avg Words: %d""" % (numPosts, numWords, avgWords)
And the output I get is:
Total Posts: 21 Total Words: 9731 Avg Words: 463
Which is slightly wrong because this simple script does not differentiate between drafts and posts (and my word counting routine is probably too naive among other things). A more correct and robust version of this is left as an exercise to the reader. I’m more than satisfied with this simple, rough estimate.
