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http://localhost:8080/solr/statistics/select?indent=on&rows=0&facet=true&facet.date=time&facet.date.start=2016-01-01T00:00:00Z&facet.date.end=2017-01-01T00:00:00Z&facet.date.gap=%2B1MONTH&q=type:0+owningItem:2163&fq=-isBot:true&fq=-(bundleName:[*+TO+*]-bundleName:ORIGINAL)&fq=-(statistics_type:[*+TO+*]+-statistics_type:view)

Statistics: number of total downloads in a given time span

Show the total repository-wide bitstream (type:0) downloads, excluding robots (isBot:false), for a specific duration (September 1 2017 through September 1 2018).  No need for faceting to get a total count:

http://localhost:8080/solr/statistics/select?indent=on&rows=0&q=time:[2017-09-01T00:00:00Z+TO+2018-09-01T00:00:00Z]+AND+type:0+AND+isBot:false

Querying Solr from XMLUI

Since Solr returns its responses in XML, it's possible and easy to call custom Solr queries from XMLUI, process the XML response with XSLT and display the results in human-readable form on the HTML page.
There are two ways how to do that - synchronously in Cocoon or asynchronously using AJAX (JavaScript) after the page is loaded. Solr queries are usually very fast, so only synchronous calls will be shown here.

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