amount of youtube videos of each Linux distro

Dieter@be · 2009-04-11 09:28:44

Statistics.. often useless but who doesn't like them?
In http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69258 I noticed that there are quite some videos of Arch on youtube, so I started wondering how many videos each distro would have.
So I wrote this little script

#!/bin/bash
distros=`wget -q http://distrowatch.com/ -O '-' | grep -A 1 "Select Distribution</option>" | tail -n 1 | sed 's/<[^>]*>/ /g'`
for distro in $distros
do
        # lowercase
        distro=`tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" <<< $distro`
        # if distro does not contain 'linux' or 'bsd', append ' linux'.
        [[ $distro =~ linux ]] || [[ $distro =~ bsd ]] || distro="$distro linux"
        echo -n ${distro/ /+}' '
        results=`wget -q "http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=${distro/ /+}&aq=f" -O - | grep 'of about <strong>' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | awk '{print $NF}'`
        [ -z "$results" ] && echo 0
        [ -n "$results" ] && echo $results
done

Note that the script is not perfect. it will append 'linux' to distro's like m0n0wall (which is bsd) and solaris. and if the distro contains of multiple words it may become split up..
Also , 'linux' without anything else is in there. there are a few bogus ones in it, but it gives an idea.

Arch comes at around place 45 with 186 videos. Here is the top 100 ( <script> | sort -r -n -k 2 | uniq | head -n 100 | nl)

1 linux 39,700
2 ubuntu+linux 19,100
3 source+linux 3,660
4 xp+linux 3,470
5 os+linux 3,300
6 musix+linux 2,460
7 server+linux 2,170
8 gnulinex+linux 1,890
9 easy+linux 1,420
10 debian+linux 1,160
11 red+linux 1,110
12 fedora+linux 939
13 easys+linux 752
14 max+linux 734
15 small+linux 708
16 vine+linux 698
17 studio+linux 655
18 64+linux 624
19 box+linux 598
20 core+linux 597
21 ultimate+linux 579
22 kubuntu+linux 557
23 dog+linux 544
24 stux+linux 535
25 mandriva+linux 508
26 yes+linux 490
27 rocks+linux 446
28 hat+linux 440
29 big+linux 436
30 opensuse+linux 398
31 gentoo+linux 376
32 rock+linux 360
33 freebsd 359
34 livecd+linux 317
35 novell+linux 297
36 mint+linux 295
37 nature's+linux 269
38 grml+linux 265
39 yellow+linux 225
40 userful+linux 221
41 xubuntu+linux 199
42 rays+linux 196
43 puppy+linux 195
44 solaris+linux 189
45 arch+linux 186
46 simplis+linux 182
47 gos+linux 177
48 slackware+linux 174
49 magic+linux 168
50 oracle+linux 158
51 greenie+linux 147
52 damn+linux 146
53 router+linux 145
54 sabayon+linux 119
55 sam+linux 112
56 pclinuxos 111
57 molinux 108
58 olpc+linux 102
59 cluster+linux 98
60 tiny+linux 97
61 centos+linux 96
62 xandros+linux 95
63 alt+linux 95
64 linpus+linux 90
65 flag+linux 87
66 openbsd 85
67 backtrack+linux 85
68 knoppix+linux 82
69 mepis+linux 80
70 netbsd 79
71 bu+linux 78
72 pardus+linux 69
73 shift+linux 60
74 vector+linux 50
75 moonos+linux 50
76 lfs+linux 49
77 boss+linux 46
78 miros+linux 45
79 trixbox+linux 42
80 nova+linux 42
81 guadalinex+linux 42
82 calculate+linux 42
83 elive+linux 40
84 pioneer+linux 39
85 pc-bsd 38
86 gparted+linux 35
87 slax+linux 33
88 pie+linux 31
89 opensolaris+linux 31
90 absolute+linux 30
91 2x+linux 29
92 dreamlinux 28
93 ear+linux 27
94 scientific+linux 26
95 devil+linux 26
96 zenwalk+linux 23
97 skolelinux 23
98 miracle+linux 23
99 moblin+linux 20
100 cdlinux 20

Last edited by Dieter@be (2009-04-11 09:34:09)

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#1 2009-04-11 09:28:44

amount of youtube videos of each Linux distro

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