To accomplish this task, you can use the lemmy-stats-crawler tool available on GitHub. First, clone the repository using git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-stats-crawler.git. Then, navigate to the cloned directory using cd lemmy-stats-crawler and run the command cargo run -- --json > stats.json to generate a JSON file containing the stats.

To extract the list of instances blocking a given instance from a stats.json file similar to the one you provided, you can use the json module in Python. Here's a script that takes user input and returns the list of instances blocking the given instance:

import json #with open("stats.json", "r") as file: # json_data = json.load(file) json_data = ''' { "instance_details": [ { "domain": "lemmy.world", "site_info": { "federated_instances": { "blocked": [ "burggit.moe" ] } } }, { "domain": "lemmy.ml", "site_info": { "federated_instances": { "blocked": [ "lemmy.fmhy.ml", "example2.com" ] } } } ] } ''' def find_blocking_instances(target_instance, json_data): data = json.loads(json_data) blocking_instances = [] for instance in data["instance_details"]: if target_instance in instance["site_info"]["federated_instances"]["blocked"]: blocking_instances.append(instance["domain"]) return blocking_instances user_input = input("Enter the instance to find blocking instances: ") result = find_blocking_instances(user_input, json_data) print("Instances blocking", user_input, ":", result)

When you run this script and input lemmy.fmhy.ml, it will output:

Instances blocking lemmy.fmhy.ml : ['lemmy.ml']

This script first loads the JSON data into a Python dictionary using json.loads() [1]. Then, it iterates through the instance_details list and checks if the given instance is in the blocked list of each instance. If it is, the domain of the blocking instance is added to the blocking_instances list. Finally, the script prints the list of instances blocking the given instance.

Citations: [1] https://pynative.com/python/json/

Thanks for this. It's a bit too complicated, hopefully at some point the info will be just available

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