Organization Alt Finder

[MasteredRed]

Hello Everyone! So as I mentioned back in a post in this topic, I took advantage of the files in the DualScraper repository that was released.

 

After extracting the data.json file, I split it off into two sections. One for the organizations and one for the users. I then built a python script that could analyze the data files and give you a approximation on how many alts are in any given organization. This means that it detects if the accounts joined the organization on the same day that they were created and they have no pledge status. 

 

I could not detect profile picture, bio, location, and other stuff to help give a better reading, but it should be understandable that these figures are an estimate.

 

That being said, it reveals some information(that I will not discuss due to it being, well, risky for me to say in nature) and can really help us out in later times.

 

 

Now with that being said, there are a couple things that I want to mention about my process of going about this in the first place.

 

Foremost, this is a python script that I wrote in my spare time. It is built for Python3 and should be fairly bugless in nature. Secondly, it is using the data.json from the DualScraper project. Third, I did not scrape the data or use data that was scraped, besides the data.json file included on the repository(I tried. I have a feeling it's my environment setup.)

 

Finally, I should mention that Scraping data off the community site is against the TOS and should not be done. From discussions I've had with NQ though, as long as the data is public, it's presumably fine(but don't take that as a one way ticket out of penalties for scraping. I'm not in charge of the site.)

 

Now you may be asking "but wait? can't I just use the data from http://www.du-stats.com/devtools?"

The answer to that is no. I looked through the data and it does not include join dates. Not to mention it's saved in a csv format.

 

If you want to download the project, go ahead and do it here.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bzoy2iv0ves2h5o/AltFinder.rar?dl=0

I can't wait to see the information that you find.

 

http://www.du-stats.com/devtools/

https://github.com/malignantz/DualScraper/

https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/10974-so-many-organisations/?p=48636

 

Declarations:

In no way have I accused any organization of anything, nor do I take responsibility for the accusations to be made because of this. I just provided the tool.

I as well in no way claim that this will find an alt or is the alt finder. It only allows you to make your own conclusions.

I as well did not scrape the data for this project myself(I tried. Again, my environment needs to be cleaned before I can even try)

I do not endorse nor do I defend the practice of scraping. It is against the TOS and should not be done if you can avoid it.

[MasteredRed]

So I would like to quickly apologize. The application was broken due to me using a past version of it for this upload. Now it is fixed and should perform as advertised. Sorry for the mixup.