Erudite 1.1.1

Log your command history to an analytics engine

Tail files, and do things with them.

Installation

Run pip install erudite or if it’s your thing: easy_install erudite. You’ll need to also get argparse if you’re using a Python less than 2.7.

This might work on Python 3+, but I haven’t tested it.

Examples

Send first words of your zsh history to [StatHat](http://www.stathat.com) (currently the default):

erudite –parser=zsh_history –logger=StatHatLogger –stathat-key=[e-mail] ~/.zsh_history

If you just want to play around, and see what you can do:

erudite –parser=zsh_history –logger=PrintingLogger ~/.zsh_history

Developing

Parsers (used to parse lines) are in erudite/parsers.py, and loggers (used to do things with parsed lines) are in erudite/loggers.py.

Contributing

It would be totally awesome to have many many more options in this script. I’m totally open to contributions. But there are a few things that will help me:

• Your fork should have a topic branch with your feature, requesting to pull against develop
• Please don’t add any requirements for loggers to setup.py - catch ImportError and exit gracefully. (see StatHatLogger for an example)
• If you’re adding a parser, it would be awesome if you could attach some sample input.
• Just for fun, you might want to run pylint against your changes.
• If you’re changing default settings, it’s totally cool. Just ask me first.
• You should add yourself to Authors in the README.

In particular, here are some things/ideas that would be great to have:

• Parser for [bash](http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/) history
• Parser for database logs
• Logger for [redis][1]/[mongo][2]/whatever nosql store you want to use
• Logger for [StatsD](https://github.com/etsy/statsd)
• And if you’re feeling particularly ambitious: tests

[1]: http://redis.io/ [2]: http://www.mongodb.org/

Authors

• Brian Hicks

License

See LICENSE.md (hint: it’s Apache 2.0)