documentation/content/en/methods/admin/dimensions.md

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title: dimensions API methods description: Obtain qualitative metrics about the server. menu: docs:

name: dimensions
parent: methods-admin
identifier: methods-admin-dimensions

aliases: [ "/methods/admin/dimensions", "/api/methods/admin/dimensions",

]

Get dimensional data {#get}

POST /api/v1/admin/dimensions HTTP/1.1

Obtain information about popularity of certain accounts, servers, languages, etc.

Returns: Array of Admin::Dimension\ OAuth: User token + admin:read\ Permissions: View Dashboard\ Version history:\ 3.5.0 - added\ 4.0.0 - support custom roles and permissions

Request

Headers

Authorization : {{}} Provide this header with Bearer <user token> to gain authorized access to this API method.

Form data parameters

keys[] : {{}} Array of String. Request specific dimensions by their keystring. Supported dimensions include:

• languages = Most-used languages on this server
• sources = Most-used client apps on this server
• servers = Remote servers with the most statuses
• space_usage = How much space is used by your software stack
• software_versions = The version numbers for your software stack
• tag_servers = Most-common servers for statuses including a trending tag
• tag_languages = Most-used languages for statuses including a trending tag
• instance_accounts = Most-followed accounts from a remote server
• instance_languages = Most-used languages from a remote server

start_at : String (ISO 8601 Datetime). The start date for the time period. If a time is provided, it will be ignored.

end_at : String (ISO 8601 Datetime). The end date for the time period. If a time is provided, it will be ignored.

limit : Integer. The maximum number of results to return for sources, servers, languages, tag or instance dimensions.

tag_servers[id] : String. When tag_servers is one of the requested keys, you must provide a trending tag ID to obtain information about which servers are posting the tag.

tag_languages[id] : String. When tag_languages is one of the requested keys, you must provide a trending tag ID to obtain information about which languages are posting the tag.

instance_accounts[domain] : String. When instance_accounts is one of the requested keys, you must provide a domain to obtain information about popular accounts from that server.

instance_languages[domain] : String. When instance_accounts is one of the requested keys, you must provide a domain to obtain information about popular languages from that server.

Response

200: OK

Requesting data on mastodon.social and a given trending tag with a limit of 2.

[
  {
    "key": "languages",
    "data": [
      {
        "key": "en",
        "human_key": "English",
        "value": "10"
      },
      {
        "key": "es",
        "human_key": "Spanish",
        "value": "1"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "key": "sources",
    "data": [
      {
        "key": "web",
        "human_key": "Website",
        "value": "3"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "key": "servers",
    "data": [
      {
        "key": "botsin.space",
        "human_key": "botsin.space",
        "value": "13738"
      },
      {
        "key": "monads.online",
        "human_key": "monads.online",
        "value": "8928"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "key": "space_usage",
    "data": [
      {
        "key": "postgresql",
        "human_key": "PostgreSQL",
        "value": "49581359907",
        "unit": "bytes",
        "human_value": "46.2 GB"
      },
      {
        "key": "redis",
        "human_key": "Redis",
        "value": "100765744",
        "unit": "bytes",
        "human_value": "96.1 MB"
      },
      {
        "key": "media",
        "human_key": "Media storage",
        "value": "837837315424",
        "unit": "bytes",
        "human_value": "780 GB"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "key": "software_versions",
    "data": [
      {
        "key": "mastodon",
        "human_key": "Mastodon",
        "value": "3.5.1+chitter",
        "human_value": "3.5.1+chitter"
      },
      {
        "key": "ruby",
        "human_key": "Ruby",
        "value": "3.0.3p157",
        "human_value": "3.0.3p157"
      },
      {
        "key": "postgresql",
        "human_key": "PostgreSQL",
        "value": "14.3",
        "human_value": "14.3"
      },
      {
        "key": "redis",
        "human_key": "Redis",
        "value": "6.2.7",
        "human_value": "6.2.7"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "key": "instance_languages",
    "data": [
      {
        "key": "en",
        "human_key": "English",
        "value": "5848"
      },
      {
        "key": "de",
        "human_key": "German",
        "value": "155"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "key": "instance_accounts",
    "data": [
      {
        "key": "fribbledom",
        "human_key": "fribbledom",
        "value": "33"
      },
      {
        "key": "ShugoWah",
        "human_key": "ShugoWah",
        "value": "26"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "key": "tag_servers",
    "data": [
      {
        "key": "live.hatnix.net",
        "human_key": "live.hatnix.net",
        "value": "6"
      },
      {
        "key": "linuxrocks.online",
        "human_key": "linuxrocks.online",
        "value": "4"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "key": "tag_languages",
    "data": [
      {
        "key": "und",
        "human_key": "und",
        "value": "8"
      },
      {
        "key": "en",
        "human_key": "English",
        "value": "7"
      }
    ]
  }
]

403: Forbidden

Authorized user is missing a permission, or invalid or missing Authorization header

{
  "error": "This action is not allowed"
}

See also

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{{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/lib/admin/metrics/dimension.rb" caption="app/lib/admin/metrics/dimension.rb" >}}

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