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@carrochan asked:
Hi, you were very helpful in providing me with info on fandomstats - and I've been having lots of fun with it. But, how do you get the data for all fandoms? For example, you have a list of most popular fandoms as of Feb 2017. Would it be easy to pull a new report as of now, and how?
Hey! I write scripts to scrape data from AO3 – including from the pages that list all the fandoms within a given media category. In fact, just today I wrote a script to more easily get the top N fandoms off of AO3. :) I want to eventually make it easy for anyone to do that on fandomstats.org, but we’re not quite there yet. I can share my python script with interested individuals, in the meantime.
Here are the top fandoms for each category, and overall (minimum size 1000 fanworks). I’ve removed most of the umbrella fandoms like “Sherlock Holmes - All Media Types,” or “Actor RPF,” but a few may have crept in:
TOP FANDOMS OVERALL (with num fanworks)
- Supernatural 174767
- Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling 156267
- Sherlock (TV) 100782
- Teen Wolf (TV) 89180
- The Avengers (Marvel Movies) 87866
- Captain America (Movies) 53371
- One Direction (Band) 52641
- Star Trek 48507
- 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS 47281
- Doctor Who 46284
- Homestuck 44362
- Haikyuu!! 42649
- Once Upon a Time (TV) 36387
- Original Work 36236
- Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan 35949
- Voltron: Legendary Defender 32930
- Glee 31995
- Merlin (TV) 29401
- Doctor Who (2005) 28870
- Star Wars Sequel Trilogy 27620
- Naruto 27103
- Dragon Age: Inquisition 27051
- Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015) 26274
- Thor (Movies) 26200
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer 25713
- Hetalia: Axis Powers 25700
- Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) 25535
Continue to read category breakdowns – e.g., top movie fandoms. Note that this is according to AO3′s categories, and some fandoms appear in multiple categories, so you might see some that seem out of place (e.g., Doctor Who is in Books & Literature as well as more expected categories, because there are some Doctor Who books).
TOP FANDOMS: Anime & Manga
- 1) Haikyuu!!: 42628
- 2) Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan: 35940
- 3) Naruto: 27090
- 4) Hetalia: Axis Powers: 25691
- 5) Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime): 25512
- 6) Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko’s Basketball: 17558
- 7) Free!: 14697
- 8) Miraculous Ladybug: 12334
- 9) 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia: 11437
- 10) One Piece: 10462
TOP FANDOMS: Books & Literature
- 1) Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling: 156166
- 2) Doctor Who: 46269
- 3) Doctor Who (2005): 28859
- 4) A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin: 23266
- 5) The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien: 11869
- 6) Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan: 10525
- 7) The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien: 8978
- 8) The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare: 8920
- 9) The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien: 8666
- 10) James Bond (Craig movies): 8213
TOP FANDOMS: Cartoons & Comics & Graphic Novels
- 1) Homestuck: 44369
- 2) Voltron: Legendary Defender: 32868
- 3) Marvel (Comics): 22125
- 4) Marvel 616: 18821
- 5) Avatar (TV): 13332
- 6) Batman (Comics): 12796
- 7) Miraculous Ladybug: 12334
- 8) Gravity Falls: 12061
- 9) Transformers Generation One: 11630
- 10) Smallville: 9353
TOP FANDOMS: Celebrities & Real People
- 1) Supernatural RPF: 16187
- 2) Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter RPF: 14731
- 3) Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (YouTube RPF): 12250
- 4) Football RPF: 11705
- 5) Hockey RPF: 8803
- 6) The Lord of the Rings RPF: 4519
- 7) Motorsport RPF: 3957
- 8) Historical RPF: 3558
- 9) Game Grumps: 3423
- 10) Formula 1 RPF: 3302
TOP FANDOMS: Movies
- 1) Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling: 156165
- 2) The Avengers (Marvel Movies): 87838
- 3) Captain America (Movies): 53350
- 4) Star Trek: 48498
- 5) Star Wars Sequel Trilogy: 27550
- 6) Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015): 26235
- 7) Thor (Movies): 26182
- 8) Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies): 24326
- 9) X-Men (Movieverse): 20765
- 10) Iron Man (Movies): 18562
TOP FANDOMS: Music & Bands
- 1) One Direction (Band): 52636
- 2) 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS: 47181
- 3) EXO (Band): 17640
- 4) My Chemical Romance: 13404
- 5) Johnny’s Entertainment: 9380
- 6) Fall Out Boy: 8841
- 7) 5 Seconds of Summer (Band): 8572
- 8) Twenty One Pilots: 7884
- 9) SEVENTEEN (Band): 7785
- 10) Panic! at the Disco: 7161
TOP FANDOMS: Other Media
- 1) Homestuck: 44369
- 2) Original Work: 36207
- 3) Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies): 24326
- 4) Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter RPF: 14731
- 5) Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (YouTube RPF): 12250
- 6) Star Trek: The Original Series: 8410
- 7) Professional Wrestling: 7425
- 8) Red vs. Blue: 7146
- 9) World Wrestling Entertainment: 6723
- 10) Welcome to Night Vale: 6388
TOP FANDOMS: TV Shows
- 1) Supernatural: 174699
- 2) Sherlock (TV): 100766
- 3) Teen Wolf (TV): 89156
- 4) Star Trek: 48498
- 5) Doctor Who: 46269
- 6) Once Upon a Time (TV): 36373
- 7) Glee: 31992
- 8) Merlin (TV): 29396
- 9) Doctor Who (2005): 28859
- 10) Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 25709
TOP FANDOMS: Theater
- 1) Hamilton - Miranda: 13709
- 2) Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: 3636
- 3) Be More Chill - Iconis/Tracz: 3111
- 4) Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil: 2385
- 5) Dear Evan Hansen - Pasek & Paul/Levenson: 2127
- 6) Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken: 1368
- 7) Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling: 989
- 8) Heathers: The Musical - Murphy & O'Keefe: 822
- 9) Shakespeare - History Plays: 737
- 10) The Book of Mormon - Parker/Stone/Lopez: 674
TOP FANDOMS: Video Games
- 1) Dragon Age: Inquisition: 27061
- 2) Final Fantasy: 24727
- 3) Overwatch (Video Game): 21086
- 4) Undertale (Video Game): 20248
- 5) Mass Effect Trilogy: 14664
- 6) Fire Emblem Series: 11982
- 7) Dragon Age II: 11523
- 8) Final Fantasy XV: 11016
- 9) Shin Megami Tensei Series: 8691
- 10) Dragon Age: Origins: 8363