Scratch Parse

Lists and counts the blocks of a given Scratch 3 Project JSON file, developed for the Creative Computing Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

For more features, use the new and improved CCL Scratch Tools package here: https://github.com/GSE-CCL/scratch-tools.

Setup

1. Make sure you've installed Python 3.
2. Navigate the terminal to the downloaded repository.
3. Make sure you have all Scratch 3 Project JSON files in the same directory. This can be batch downloaded by the Scratch-Studio-Scrape tool found here: https://github.com/GSE-CCL/scratch-studio-scrape
4. All set!

Usage

Inputs: blockify.py [options]

• -p: Project ID. Will list and count the blocks from the JSON of given project ID.

...more inputs coming soon!

Examples

List and count the blocks of a project with ID ID_NUMBER:

python blockify.py -p ID_NUMBER

This will return a list of unique blocks as well as a dictionary that counts the frequency of each block.