Guys,

Please can anyone tell me how download stats for each script has been tracked!

Actually I scripts have absolute download link... Then how server keeps track of no.of download??

Is there any special script or program running on server???

Waiting for some answer...

-Rahul :-)

Probably it just checks how many times that file is requested

The counter is going up every time the install link is used (http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/####.user.js), even if user doesn't actually install it or already has that script. If you want to get script file without incrementing install counter, you might use "view as plaintext" link: http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/####?format=txt.

Iirc, the counter only goes up if you're logged in and are viewing the script.

No psyched... Counter goes on incrementing whenever someone accesses script with URL ending .user.js extension...
Act I have seen download tracker where a file is kept on a sever say download.php, then all URL rewritten like download.php?url="original_url"
Then download.php usually updates a database table for entry "original_url"

This way URLs on site redirected. I hate this approach as its not fullproof. Also redirection is visible and makes URL dirty! :-(

So thats why I was wondering about userscripts way of tracking file downloads!

Right, I actually tested that once, sorry about that :)
But there was something about needing to be logged in to do something...