htcount

Simple CLI/daemon tool for counting visitors using access.log in the Common Log Format
Export totals in multiple formats, such as JSON or SVG badge!

Features

Export formats

• JSON - for API usage
• SVG - configurable or default badge button

Install

1. git clone https://github.com/YGGverse/htcount.git && cd htcount
2. cargo build --release
3. sudo install target/release/htcount /usr/local/bin/htcount

Usage

htcount --source       /var/log/nginx/access.log\
        --target-svg   /path/to/badge.svg\
        --template-svg /path/to/counter/template.svg

• see default/counter.svg

Options

-d, --debug <DEBUG>
        Debug level

        * `i` - info * `d` - detailed

        [default: i]

--target-json <TARGET_JSON>
        Export results to JSON file (e.g. `/path/to/stats.json`)

--target-svg <TARGET_SVG>
        Export results to SVG file (e.g. `/path/to/badge.svg`)

        * use `{hits}` / `{hosts}` pattern to replace parsed values

--template-svg <TEMPLATE_SVG>
        Use custom SVG file template with `{hits}` / `{hosts}` placeholders

        [default: default/counter.svg]

-m, --match-time <MATCH_TIME>
        Filter records match time pattern (e.g. `%d/%b/%Y`)

-c, --index-capacity <CAPACITY>
        Expected memory index capacity

        [default: 100]

-i, --ignore-host <IGNORE_HOST>
        Exclude host(s) from index

-s, --source <SOURCE>
        Access log source (e.g. `/var/nginx/access.log`)

-u, --update <UPDATE>
        Update delay in seconds

        [default: 300]

-h, --help
        Print help (see a summary with '-h')

-V, --version
        Print version

systemd

#/etc/systemd/system/htcount.service

[Unit]
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/htcount --source /var/log/nginx/access.log\
                                 --target-svg /var/www/htcount/visitors.svg\
                                 --template-svg /path/to/default/template.svg\
                                 --ignore-host 127.0.0.1\
                                 --ignore-host 127.0.0.2\
                                 --match-time %%d/%%b/%%Y\
                                 --update 3600\
                                 --debug n
StandardOutput=null
StandardError=null

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• make sure /var/www/htcount directory exists
• replace /path/to/default/template.svg with your custom template path
• use ignore-host to skip local host requests
• to filter today-only records, use match-time argument %d/%b/%Y
  • to filter this month-only records use %b/%Y
  • make sure the time pattern in the example above corresponds to your access.log format
  • make sure the log time pattern % is escaped to %%

Service management tips

• systemctl daemon-reload - update configuration
• systemctl enable - launch on system startup
• systemctl restart htcount - start systemd service
• systemctl status htcount - check if service is running

Live examples

• http://[302:68d0:f0d5:b88d::fed] - Snac instance for the Yggdrasil network