User:ShakataGaNai/tools/Category Counter

Copy and save the code as SOMETHING.php.

Caution – Do not use unless you know what you are doing!

<?php

$handle = fopen("master.csv", "w");

$start_date = strtotime("2004-11-09");
$end_date = strtotime("2009-09-12");

$a = 0;
while($start_date <= $end_date){
        $a++;
        $start_date = strtotime("+1 day", $start_date);
        $cat = date("F_j,_Y", $start_date);
        $short = date("Y-m-d", $start_date);

        $url = 'http://en.wikinews.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=categoryinfo&format=xml&titles=Category:' . $cat;
        $page = curlIt($url);
        if(preg_match("/<categoryinfo size=\"(.*)\" pages=\"(.*)\" files=\"(.*)\" subcats=\"(.*)\" \/>/", $page, $ray)){
                $it = $ray[2];
        }else{
                $it = 0;
        }
        print "$short,$it\n";
        fwrite($handle, "$short,$it\n");
        sleep(1);
}

fclose($handle);
print "DONE - $a\n\n";

function curlIt($url, $unpwd="", $post=""){
        $UA = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; WikinewsBot)";
        $ch = curl_init($url);
        //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1); //--Debug only
        if($unpwd != ""){
                curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $unpwd);
        }
        if($post != ""){
                curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
                curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
        }
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $UA);
        ob_start();
        curl_exec($ch);
        $retHTML = ob_get_contents();
        ob_end_clean();

        return($retHTML);
        curl_close($ch);
}