Please consider the following formatting changes to #13779

EventFiltering/macros/getMenu.C

@@ -12,8 +12,13 @@
 #include "CCDB/BasicCCDBManager.h"
 
 #include <TAxis.h>
+#include <TFile.h>
+#include <TGrid.h>
 #include <TH1.h>
+#include <TSystem.h>
 
+#include <iostream>
+#include <regex>
 #include <string>
 
 void getMenu(int runNumber, std::string baseCCDBPath = "Users/m/mpuccio/EventFiltering/OTS/Chunked/")
@@ -29,3 +34,43 @@ void getMenu(int runNumber, std::string baseCCDBPath = "Users/m/mpuccio/EventFil
     std::cout << "Id " << i - 2 << ": " << axis->GetBinLabel(i) << "\n";
   }
 }
+
+void getMenu(std::string period)
+{
+  std::regex pattern(R"(LHC(\d{2})[A-Za-z]{1,2})");
+  std::smatch match;
+
+  int year{2000};
+  if (std::regex_match(period, match, pattern)) {
+    std::cout << "Year = " << match[1] << std::endl;
+    year += std::stoi(match[1]);
+  } else {
+    std::cout << "Invalid format" << std::endl;
+  }
+  gSystem->Exec(Form("alien_find /alice/data/%i/%s/ ctf_skim_full/AnalysisResults_fullrun.root > list_tmp.txt", year, period.data()));
+
+  std::ifstream file("list_tmp.txt");
+  if (!file) {
+    std::cerr << "Error: could not open file\n";
+    return;
+  }
+
+  std::string firstLine;
+  if (!std::getline(file, firstLine)) {
+    std::cerr << "Error: file is empty or read failed\n";
+    return;
+  }
+
+  std::cout << "First line: " << firstLine << '\n';
+  TGrid::Connect("alien://");
+  TFile* scalersFile = TFile::Open((std::string("alien://") + firstLine).data(), "READ");
+  TH1D* counters = (TH1D*)scalersFile->Get("central-event-filter-task/scalers/mFiltered");
+  TAxis* axis = counters->GetXaxis();
+
+  std::vector<std::string> binLabels(axis->GetNbins() - 2); // skip first and last bins
+  for (int i = 2; i < axis->GetNbins(); ++i) {
+    binLabels[i - 1] = axis->GetBinLabel(i);
+    std::cout << "Id " << i - 2 << ": " << axis->GetBinLabel(i) << "\n";
+  }
+  gSystem->Exec("rm list_tmp.txt");
+}