Mathworks File Exchange Profile Information - Part 2

Ok, A quick little update here before I head off on holidays!

Continuing on from my previous post I realised that I wanted to watch how my submissions were performing over time (my memory is not quite what it used to be).

I had a crazy idea, could I create a Timer that would scrape my user statistics from the Mathworks File Exchange site and save them in a format such that I could plot them easily???

Introducing Monitor File Exchange Statistics.

Plotting my stats for the past week:
I'm not a big fan of the look of the submitted files plot as it can get a bit busy. I'm envisaging a lightweight GUI with a drop-down selector for each submitted file might be nicer. Particularly for those people with a large number of submitted files. I'll update the submission after I get back to do something like this.

To set the automatic scraping of your File Exchange statistics you need to do the following:

1. Download the required MATLAB files from here. Need Monitor File Exchange Stats and Retrieve File Exchange Profile Information.
   
2. Place the files somewhere in your MATLAB path. Note, if you already have a startup.m, just add the InitialiseFileExchangeInfoTimer and UpdateFileExchangeInfoTimerFcn to your existing startup.m and call InitialiseFileExchangeInfoTimer from within.
3. Modify FEX_AUTHOR_ID and UPDATE_PERIOD with your File Exchange Author ID and your desired scrape frequency (seconds). The cache file defaults to being stored in your MATLAB root directory, modify FEX_SAVE_FILE if you wish to customise this location.
4. Save any changes and restart MATLAB.
5. Each time you restart Matlab you will be presented with a plot of your current and historical stats (for as long as you have been scraping).
6. To manually plot your current stats, call plotLocalFileExchangeInfo(cache_file)

In terms of file size, I've had the script running every 10 minutes for nearly a week and my cache file is only 45 kB.