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December 23, 2023

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Moria's Race was released 118 days ago on 26th of August 2023. And as of now, I'm aware only of about 604 views across 6 platforms that I track.





Release History


On the day of release I published the movie both on Odysee, on a PeerTube instance video.chalec.org that doesn't exist anymore and on Archive.org.

The video on PeerTube was never unlocked by the administrator of the instance, so it was only available with my password. But the download links to it worked. And I included them on Blender Artists publication about the movie, and on the page about the movie on My Personal Tor Website.

There is no way for me to know how many people saw the movie using that link. The website is unavailable and PeerTube analytics only works when people see the video on the website. And so even if the website would be still up, there would be zero views in the analytics. Though I know of at least 3 or 4 people who saw the movie using that link.

On November 23rd 2023 ( roughly a month ago ) the movie was published to peer.madiator.cloud PeerTube instance hosted by @Madiator2011.

On November 27th 2023 a Mastodon Account specifically for things related to Moria's Race was made. As of now, it has 10 followers.

On December 5th 2023 the movie appeared on a YouTube channel by @Nasikla. It was not uploaded there by me.

On December 7th a Universal Share Page was made, which includes most of the links to the movie. This is the page that is recommended to share when you want to share the movie.

On December 13th the peer.madiator.cloud instance was down for one day. And the movie was published on video.thepolarbear.co.uk PeerTube instance.

On December 16th the movie was published to a YouTube channel The Movie Channel, which is a lower quality version which appears to be from a place called "Kimcartoon". There is Moria's Race on one website called Kimcartoon and there is no indication of when it got there. But judging by the video on YouTube it got there roughly at the same time.

So we have:

- Odysee
- My Personal Tor Website
- Universal Share Link
- Mastodon
- Internet Archive
- Madiator's PeerTube
- Polar Bear's PeerTube
- Nasikla's YouTube
- The Movie Channel's YouTube
- Kimcartoon

Since 2 days ago, @Madiator2011 also spawned a server bass.madiator.cloud from which you can get source files of Moria's Race. Here is a post about it.

Additionally to that, since a bit before the release of the movie and until recently I published various addons for a game called SuperTuxKart that advertise the movie.





View counts


On 5th of December 2023 ( when the movie appeared on YouTube ) I started collecting analytics from all platforms ( excluding Kimcartoon and The Movie Channel).

Kimcartoon's view count seem to show the amount of people who visited the page, rather than the amount of people who saw the movie. But to be honest my website is kind of the same. But I did have a slightly different approach to the website, that would exclude bots from being calculated into the analytics.

My website has a button that reveals an analytics graph of the page. It is done by embedding the analytics page within a small details container. Which made it possible to make everything without javascript. But this made it so my server serves two pages when people are visiting the page from a browser. And I can search for this in the log files. Which is exactly what I do to calculate the views of the movie on my website. For comparison, at the moment the view count rendered on the page shows 216 views. While the analytics tool shows only 88 views.

I didn't include The Movie Channel yet into the analytics. And I don't know if I should. There is no way that I know of that can get analytics data out of Kimcartoon. And the website seems to be not reliable in that regard. So for the time being I will be collecting data only from the following publications:

- Odysee
- My Personal Website
- Internet Archive
- Madiator's PeerTube
- Polar Bear's PeerTube
- Nasikla's YouTube

To get Odysee's views was not complex, since I implemented a view counter into FastLBRY client a few years ago. It does require registering a new auth-token for some reason, but it is not a big deal. it was easy. 

CLAIMID = "521c9d73af52509a1f46b3c957c6bf8199f44332"

url = "https://api.odysee.com/user/new"
req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=None)
f = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
data = json.loads(f.read().decode('utf-8'))


auth_token = data["data"]["auth_token"]
        
claim_id = CLAIMID
auth = auth_token

headers = {"Origin":"https://odysee.com",
"Referer":"https://odysee.com/",
"User-Agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0"}
    
url="https://api.odysee.com/file/view_count?auth_token="+auth+"&claim_id="+claim_id
req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=None, headers=headers)

f = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
data = json.loads(f.read().decode('utf-8'))
if "data" in data:
	data = data["data"]
else:
	data =  False

ODYSEEVIEWS = data[0]
print( "Odysee Views:", ODYSEEVIEWS )



Internet archive turned out to be quite simple. But it wasn't straight forward. I was looking in the wrong place for some time. Until I found this solution. 

ARCHIVELINK = "https://be-api.us.archive.org/views/v1/short/morias-race"

url = ARCHIVELINK
req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=None)

f = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
data = json.loads(f.read().decode('utf-8'))
ARCHIVEVIEWS = int(data["morias-race"]["all_time"])
	
print( "Archive.org Views:", ARCHIVEVIEWS )


PeerTube on the other hand was straight forward. 

PEERTUBE = "https://peer.madiator.cloud/api/v1/videos/vmPmME5XPWNc8uXSMe1xCk"
url = PEERTUBE
req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=None)

f = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
data = json.loads(f.read().decode('utf-8'))
PEERVIEWS = int(data["views"])
	
print( "Madiator Views:", PEERVIEWS )


And because Invidious exists, YouTube was rather simple too. 

videoId = "b83W_azDOK8"
try:
	url = "https://invidious.namazso.eu/api/v1/videos/"+videoId
	req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=None)
	f = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
	data = json.loads(f.read().decode('utf-8'))
except:
	url = "https://yt.artemislena.eu/api/v1/videos/"+videoId
	req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=None)
	f = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
	data = json.loads(f.read().decode('utf-8'))

YOUTUBEVIEWS = data["viewCount"]
print( "YouTube Views:", YOUTUBEVIEWS )


If the movie ends up on something like Vimeo, I have no idea how I would get the views. As I have no idea how to get the views from Kimcartoon. Though from there I don't want to get the views.

So far the data since 5th of December shows this:



5th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 46 views
- Madiator's PeerTube - 23 views
- Odysee - 120 views
- Website - 35 views
- YouTube - 4 views

Total - 228 views



6th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 46 views
- Madiator's PeerTube - 24 views +1
- Odysee - 128 views +8
- Website - 39 views +4
- YouTube - 11 views +7

Total - 248 views +10



7th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 52 views +6
- Madiator's PeerTube - 33 views +9
- Odysee - 134 views +8
- Website - 44 views +5
- YouTube - 15 views +4

Total - 278 views +30



8th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 52 views
- Madiator's PeerTube - 39 views +6
- Odysee - 135 views +1
- Website - 55 views +11
- YouTube - 17 views +2

Total - 298 views +20



9th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 58 views +6
- Madiator's PeerTube - 41 views +2
- Odysee - 137 views +2
- Website - 63 views +8
- YouTube - 13 views -4 ( An anomaly )

Total - 312 views +14


10th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 58 views
- Madiator's PeerTube - 41 views
- Odysee - 139 views +2
- Website - 63 views
- YouTube - 15 views +2

Total - 316 views +4 ( Smallest growth )


11th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 62 views +4
- Madiator's PeerTube - 64 views +23 ( Big Spike )
- Odysee - 142 views +2
- Website - 69 views +6
- YouTube - 15 views

Total - 352 views +36


12th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 64 views +2
- Madiator's PeerTube - 69 views +5
- Odysee - 144 views +2
- Website - 70 views +1
- YouTube - 19 views +4

Total - 366 views +14


13th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 64 views
- Madiator's PeerTube - 69 views ( Down )
- Polar Bear's PeerTube - 0 views ( Just Published )
- Odysee - 150 views +6
- Website - 72 views +2
- YouTube - 22 views +3

Total - 377 views +11


14th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 79 views +15 ( Medium Spike )
- Madiator's PeerTube - 70 views +1
- Polar Bear's PeerTube - 10 views +10
- Odysee - 153 views +3
- Website - 76 views +4
- YouTube - 22 views

Total - 410 views +33


15th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 85 views +6
- Madiator's PeerTube - 75 views +5
- Polar Bear's PeerTube - 17 views +7
- Odysee - 157 views +5
- Website - 80 views +4
- YouTube - 31 views +9

Total - 445 views +35



16th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 88 views +3
- Madiator's PeerTube - 76 views +1
- Polar Bear's PeerTube - 20 views +3
- Odysee - 164 views +7
- Website - 82 views +2
- YouTube - 65 views +34 ( Big Spike )

Total - 495 views +50



17th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 92 views +4
- Madiator's PeerTube - 76 views
- Polar Bear's PeerTube - 25 views +5
- Odysee - 167 views +3
- Website - 83 views +1
- YouTube - 73 views +8

Total - 516 views +21


18th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 93 views +1
- Madiator's PeerTube - 77 views +1
- Polar Bear's PeerTube - 32 views +7
- Odysee - 169 views +2
- Website - 84 views +1
- YouTube - 73 views

Total - 528 views +12


19th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 97 views +4
- Madiator's PeerTube - 79 views +2
- Polar Bear's PeerTube - 36 views +4
- Odysee - 170 views +1
- Website - 85 views +1
- YouTube - 75 views +2

Total - 542 views +14


20th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 98 views +1
- Madiator's PeerTube - 79 views
- Polar Bear's PeerTube - 41 views +5
- Odysee - 173 views +3
- Website - 86 views +1
- YouTube - 78 views +3

Total - 555 views +13


21th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 99 views +1
- Madiator's PeerTube - 79 views
- Polar Bear's PeerTube - 44 views +3
- Odysee - 175 views +2
- Website - 86 views
- YouTube - 81 views +3

Total - 564 views +9


22th December 2023

- Internet Archive - 104 views +5
- Madiator's PeerTube - 81 views +2
- Polar Bear's PeerTube - 47 views +3
- Odysee - 179 views +4
- Website - 87 views +1
- YouTube - 83 views +2

Total - 581 views +17


A rendering of the analytics data so far:


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