diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+stats.json
diff --git a/gen_stats b/gen_stats
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+++ b/gen_stats
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import requests, json
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as xml
+
+r = requests.get("http://localhost:8081/stats")
+r.raise_for_status()
+out = {}
+d = xml.fromstring(r.text)
+assert d.tag == "inspircdstats"
+def define(name,xps,vfilter=lambda x: x):
+	global out
+	out[name] = vfilter(d.findall(xps)[0].text)
+define("usercount","./general/usercount",int)
+define("channelcount","./general/channelcount",int)
+schannels = d.findall("./channellist/channel")
+#print(len(schannels))
+channels = []
+for schannel in schannels:
+	channel = dict(name=schannel.findall("channelname")[0].text,usercount=int(schannel.findall("usercount")[0].text))
+	channel["topic"] = schannel.findall("./channeltopic/topictext")[0].text if schannel.findall("./channeltopic/topictext")[0].text is not None else "No topic set"
+	if channel["name"]=="#sudoers": # no stat output for #sudoers! it's a sekrit club of the ~team sysadmins!
+		continue
+	channels.append(channel)
+out["channels"]=channels
+#print([x.text for x in d.findall("./channellist/channel/channeltopic/topictext")])
+with open("stats.json","w") as f:
+	json.dump(out,f)