Difficulty score from api

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Hi, I’m trying to make a browser plugin that shows me the distribution of difficulty that I’ve been at, as a trend, over the past few days/weeks/months. I don’t know how useful this is, but sometimes I think “what level have I been using recently, it feels just right, or too-easy.” and then I go skim my last few days of videos. It’d be nice to see a scatterplot or a distribution. Looking at the json responses, I can find just about everything but the difficulty…

{
  "status": "OK",
  "data": {
    "activities": [
      { 
        "id": 665526,
        "userId": 11899,
        "date": "2025-07-04",
        "type": "watching",
        "customTypeId": null,
        "duration": 675,
        "timesImmersed": 1.2928557,
        "percentEngaged": 1,
        "createTS": "2025-07-04T13:39:26.364Z",
        "contentModuleId": 80,
        "userNotes": null
      },
      { 
        "id": 665474,
        "userId": 11899,
        "date": "2025-07-04",
        "type": "watching",
        "customTypeId": null,
        "duration": 557,
        "timesImmersed": 1.1135932,
        "percentEngaged": 1,
        "createTS": "2025-07-04T13:14:15.688Z",
        "contentModuleId": 133,
        "userNotes": null
      },

Is there any way to get the difficulty score easily?
Thanks!

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I don’t know how useful this is, but here’s what I ended up with. This isn’t a plugin like I hoped, but I can get a sense of how much I pushed myself (or not). No one needs a graph for that, since you can see the numbers on the “recently” part of the dashboard, but it does remind me that I was regularly looking at things in the ~15 range a bit ago and that recently I’ve struggled with things in the ~5 range, so maybe I need to go up in difficulty to make my life easier. lol. :shrug:

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That’s awesome! What are you running it on? I’d love it!

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I copy the html from my browser, and save it to a file, and then parse it with a python script that creates the plot. If you’re interested, I can put it up on github.

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This might not be accurate, but this is my quick attempt to see how many videos there are at each difficulty score…

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Of course, how many videos might not be what you want to know. Maybe you want to know what’s the total duration for each difficulty score?

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One reason I think this might not be totally accurate is because the way I’m getting the difficulty score finds no score for a few videos, yet when you look at the actual video on the website, you do see a value. For example…

Modules missing 'difficulty':
- ID: 359, Title: ゲーム実況 スターデューバレー EP5 Let’s Play Stardew Valley EP5, Has plan: True
- ID: 356, Title: ゲーム実況 スターデューバレー EP4 Let’s Play Stardew Valley EP4, Has plan: True
- ID: 347, Title: ゲーム実況 スターデューバレー EP3 Let's Play Stardew Valley EP3, Has plan: True
- ID: 328, Title: ゲーム実況 スターデューバレー EP1 Let’s Play Stardew Valley EP1, Has plan: True
- ID: 337, Title: ゲーム実況 スターデューバレー EP2 Let’s Play Stardew Valley EP2, Has plan: True
- ID: 372, Title: ゲーム実況 スターデューバレー EP6 Let’s Play Stardew Valley EP6, Has plan: True

And if you look at the json, you can see there’s no difficulty…

      { 
        "id": 359,
        "title": "ゲーム実況 スターデューバレー EP5 Let’s Play Stardew Valley EP5",
        "type": "video",
        "level": "beginner",
        "isPremium": true,
        "plan": {
          "bunnyId": "a6c415ae-dd6f-4b2a-8ebc-ac4ccdd4cb95",
          "duration": 886,
          "numThumbnails": 443,
          "thumbnailFilename": "thumbnail_c8bf354e.jpg"
        },
        "publishDate": "2023-01-11T06:46:33.000Z"
      },

Again, I’m not totally sure of the utility of this. Just sharing.

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Here’s an explanation for that. The difficulty score is based on the transcript, and the Stardew videos don’t have a transcript, so they have no difficulty score. Every video has a fallback score based on its level (in case I forget to run the difficulty score calculator script), so the Stardew videos just use the fallback value for their level (55)

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