Today Downloads

Route

URL: GET /downloads/today
Controller: App\Http\Controllers\User\TodayDownloadsController::index()

Important scope note

This page is not inside /discover/*, but it is included here because it is discovery-adjacent and was requested together with the Discover surfaces.

What the page reads

This page does not use Meilisearch. It is a direct MySQL query over the download event log.

Query logic

The controller:

Takes today's date
Reads artwork_downloads
Filters rows to whereDate(created_at, today)
Groups by artwork_id
Orders by COUNT(*) DESC
Eager-loads each artwork and related user/category data

Effectively:

SELECT artwork_id, COUNT(*) AS num_downloads
FROM artwork_downloads
WHERE DATE(created_at) = today
GROUP BY artwork_id
ORDER BY num_downloads DESC

Only artworks that are currently public and published are allowed through whereHas('artwork', ...).

Data sources

primary source: artwork_downloads
supporting source: artworks, users, user_profiles, categories

Unlike Most Downloaded, this page does not trust the aggregate artwork_stats.downloads counter for ranking. It re-counts today's actual events.

Cache behavior

no dedicated application cache in the controller

The page is as fresh as the underlying event log.

Background jobs and schedules

No page-specific cron is needed because it reads the raw event log directly.

The only prerequisite is that downloads are being recorded correctly by the download endpoint.

Notes

This page is often the more operationally trustworthy answer to "what is being downloaded right now?"
Because it counts raw rows, it is less sensitive to delayed aggregate-counter flushes than Most Downloaded.

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