[Freeswitch-users] getting statistics from core db through esl interface

Hi, I'm making a c plugin for collectd ( http://collectd.org ) to get some basic statistics from FS. Right now it uses ESL to connect, but doing an "api show channels" and after that parsing the csv to get the amount of channels per profile seems a bit of a detour.. Is it possible to do some sql selects on the core db through ESL to get this info ? thanks & regards, Leon