For several of our metrics projects (see T100710 or T100088) we end up recoding a way to access data from stats.grok.se.
We (@PierreSelim and @JeanFred) decided to write a thin client to query this data, and publish it as a Python package that we could reuse from our various projects − and that hopefully others could use too.
We worked using Test-Driven Development and pair-programming.
Cf. T44259: Make domas' pageviews data available in semi-publicly queryable database format
For a related tool which attempted caching, see https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/glamtools/issue/27/unknown-database-s51203__viewstats_cache
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This does not make much sense in the era of the pageview-api (for which @PierreSelim also started a client https://github.com/Commonists/pageview-api)