What's mingplot ?
mingplot is a tool to generate a flash-based chart using ming. mingplot includes googleplot a tool to plot a chart of Google's results count and amazonplot a tool to plot a chart of Amazon's sales rank and sales price.
mingplot uses efont-serif for generating a Flash file.
What's New
- 2008-05-06: mingplot 0.4 Released!
Amazon ECS 4 is now supported. Integrated tmaeda's patch. - 2004-03-23: mingplot 0.3 Released!
New Amazon Web Service URLs (recently changed) are now supported. - 2003-08-07: mingplot 0.1 Released!
Requirements
Usage of googleplot
To investigate a results count of a keyword `foo' and generate a chart in `/home/yourname/survey' directory, run the following command:
% googleplot -o /home/yourname/survey foo
You can use query expressions in the same way as usual google searches. The following example shows how to specify a keyword consists of two or more words.
% googleplot -o /home/yourname/survey '"ruby programming"'
To specify two or more keywords, run the mingplot like:
% googleplot -o /home/yourname/survey foo bar baz
Or specify a line-oriented text file containing keywords using -f option:
% cat keywords.txt foo bar baz % googleplot -o /home/yourname/survey -f keywords.txt
Updating Charts
To update charts, specify a directory containing the exisintg charts to be updated and run mingplot in the same way described above.
You can run mingplot as a daemon using -d option. In the daemon mode, mingplot resides in the memory and updates charts once a day automatically. Note that in the daemon mode, a keyword file specified by -f option is reloaded just before the update of charts.
% googleplot -d -o /home/yourname/survey foo
Or you can use Unix's cron system to update a chart. For example, the following setting allows you to update your chart every 5 a.m.
00 05 * * * googleplot -q -o /home/yourname/survey foo
Other Options
Try mingplot --help.
Usage of amazonplot
To use amazonplot, you need the token of Amazon Web Services.
To investigate a sales rank of a US book with the ASIN (in books, ISBN) 12345678 and generate a chart in `/home/yourname/survey' directory, run the following command:
% amazonplot --locale=us --token=AccessKeyID -o /home/yourname/survey 12345678
There are other categories such as classical, dvd, vhs, electronics, software, videogames, etc.
The other usage is same as googleplot.
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This is a free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.