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🌍 Where Are DEV Users Coming From?

Boris Jamot ✊ / on November 30, 2018

As you may already know, dev.to has an API to fetch articles and users. Let's give it a try with my favorite HTTP client, httpie: http https://...

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Ben Halpern • Dec 1 '18

Cool!!

Yaser Al-Najjar • Dec 1 '18

I guess you might want to add throttling on the API based on IP ;)

Ben Halpern • Dec 1 '18

Yes, but it’s also served from our CDN so it’s not a resource-gobbling endpoint.

Boris Jamot ✊ / • Dec 1 '18 • Edited

😱

Matteo Joliveau • Dec 2 '18

Although cool in and of itself, this also highlights why using autoincremented ids is not a good idea when it comes to protecting users privacy (this is not the case of course since I don't see any critical data in the JSON response).

I always use UUIDs for exactly that reason, and also because it helps when building distributed systems (id clashing is less probable with them)

Boris Jamot ✊ / • Dec 1 '18

I'm sorry, my english level is quite low. Should I have written "scrape" ?

Andrew Bone • Dec 1 '18

I wouldn't say your English is bad, your writing is better than a lot of native speakers 😉

Stefan Đokić • Dec 2 '18

At the time of posting this, DEV has 119,105 registered users. This is so cool 😁
dev.to/api/users/119105

Noman Gul • Oct 21 '19

yeah => dev.to/api/users/254188

Stephen Chiang • Dec 1 '18

What about me? I'm in Norway...says so on my profile :P

Boris Jamot ✊ / • Dec 1 '18

Norway: 33 users.

Boris Jamot ✊ / • Dec 1 '18

38 with Oslo.

Stephen Chiang • Dec 1 '18

i'm sure there's quite a few from Denmark as well :)

Boris Jamot ✊ / • Dec 1 '18

Sure, but there are a lot of other countries I didn't put in the list because their count of users is low.

Stephen Chiang • Dec 1 '18

Ah I see, I just assumed it was a complete list because of this line:

Let's have a look at the full statistics below:

And to be fair 38 is more than Ireland ;)

Boris Jamot ✊ / • Dec 1 '18

In fact, Norway and Denmark are in "other locations".

Cosmin Popescu • Dec 2 '18

I am from Romania. :D

Boris Jamot ✊ / • Dec 2 '18

Romania: 45 (Incl Bucharest)

Michiel Hendriks • Dec 1 '18 • Edited

Why?
I've been on the internet since 1997. I have never bothered about location, age, sex, species. (Although secretly I would be excited to converse with a cat.)

Dan Lugo • Dec 3 '18

1 of 57 from South Africa!

xelaflash • Jan 18 '19

Nice, it shows that this is a small world!
I'm 🇫🇷, but living in Barbados 🇧🇧, i would be interested in knowing if i'm the only one from there? 🤔

Boris Jamot ✊ / • Jan 18 '19

db.getCollection("users.dev.to").find({"location": /\bbarbados\b/i})

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("5bdb776102a47d33d338dcad"),
    "type_of" : "user",
    "id" : 46999,
    "username" : "xelaflash",
    "name" : "xelaflash",
    "summary" : "I'm Alex, i've learned coding in 2018, i'm now willing to start my freelance career.\r\nHere to learn and grow... and learn but mostly learn 😁",
    "twitter_username" : "GhostXela",
    "github_username" : "Xelaflash",
    "website_url" : "",
    "location" : "Barbados",
    "joined_at" : "Nov 27, 2017",
    "profile_image" : "https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--czVpA4Fy--/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,h_320,q_auto,w_320/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/user/profile_image/46999/256a85b6-8a6d-44c2-b7c6-f7cee7aca32f.png"
}

Boris Jamot ✊ / • Jan 18 '19

I'll have a look at your query this evening.

Rich • Dec 2 '18

🇦🇷 💪

Daniel Cortés • Dec 1 '18

Looks like I didn't fill my location, add one for chile

ADONIS SIMO • Mar 24 '19

Seem like there is not a lot of people from Cameroon....🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲

venoel • Dec 2 '18

I even did not know here is registration.

Sdu • Dec 2 '18

I'm probably responsible for ~10% of users from South Africa. And might grow 😌

Boris Jamot ✊ / • Dec 2 '18

South Africa: 72 (Incl Cape town, Johannesburg)

Subramanian 😎 • Apr 28 '19

A bit late.
I'm from India! 🇮🇳

Itachi Uchiha • Dec 2 '18

I'm from Turkey.

Purwanto • Sep 19 '19

Good Job, I'm from Indonesia

Ashley Maria • Dec 2 '18 • Edited

"Full" statistics

Nans Dumortier • Dec 1 '18

It might be interesting to see how the proportion of the different nationalities evolve with time!
Maybe one day we'll spot that dev.to is booming in an unexpected country!
Cheers from France 🇫🇷 :)