inquiry

So obviously you'd have to be cool with Lua, and change the “base_url” variable to point to your own space, but here's how easy it is to have a command line utility that shows you post hits:

(ooops.. I just realized you need to pilfer the “dkjson” module from wherever the bleep I originally got that from...)

(and OF COURSE need to have some cURL in your $PATH...)

(isn't software “fun”)

(and, by the way, there's a good chance this won't work for you no matter how hard you try until after some 3 BILLION trips to stackoverflow (if not lesser places...))

#! /usr/bin/env lua
local json = require 'dkjson'
local verbose = os.getenv('VERBOSE')
local base_url = 'https://inquiry.writeas.com'
local article_ids = {}
local function doit(url)
    if verbose then print('url(' .. url .. ')') end
    local popen = io.popen('curl -k -s -L -o- ' .. url)
    local next_page = nil
    for line in popen:lines() do
        local next = string.match(line, '^lt;link rel="next" href="(.-)"^gt;')
        if next then
            next_page = next
        end
        local article_id = string.match(line, '^lt;article id="post%-(.-)"')
        if article_id then
            table.insert(article_ids, article_id)
        end
    end
    popen:close()
    if not arg[1] and next_page then
        if verbose then print('next_page(' .. next_page .. ')') end
        doit(base_url .. next_page)
    end
end
doit(base_url)
local data = {}
for i,article_id in ipairs(article_ids) do
    if verbose then print('article_id(' .. article_id .. ')') end
    local popen = io.popen('curl -k -s -L -o- https://write.as/api/posts/' .. article_id)
    local encoded_json = popen:read('*a')
    popen:close()
    local decoded_json = json.decode(encoded_json)
    table.insert(data, {decoded_json.data.views, decoded_json.data.title, decoded_json.data.created, decoded_json.data.updated, article_id})
end
table.sort(data, function(a,b)
    if b[1] ^lt; a[1] then
        return true
    end
    return false
end)
for i,v in ipairs(data) do
    print(table.concat(v, '|'))
end