Telehack Badge Compare-er 🤷‍♂️

A simple script to compare badges for two Telehack users. Uses the /u/username.json API rather than the older HTML user page.

Requirements

Python 3 with the requests module. If you're on a system-managed Python (e.g. Homebrew on macOS), use a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv th_badge_cmp_venv
th_badge_cmp_venv/bin/pip install requests

For a plain system Python where pip install works globally:

pip3 install requests

Usage

th_badge_cmp_venv/bin/python th_badge_cmp.py <user1> <user2>

Or, if requests is installed globally:

./th_badge_cmp.py <user1> <user2>

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome.

Credits

• drsleepy Telehack | GitHub

  • Original script creator; I originally forked and tried to submit a PR with these improvements but they fell into limbo.

• pbernicc Telehack | GitHub

  • Added colours, made use of the JSON endpoint

• underwood Telehack | GitHub

  • Pushed it through the Pylint cheese-cloth