#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ This script generates a markdown table containing the list of Libreddit instances from an instances JSON file. It is assumed that the input instances JSON file follows the schema as instances-schema.json. This script requires python3 of at least version 3.5. Almost all of this script is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3. A portion of this script, specifically the function `flag()`, is adapted from Django Countries (https://github.com/SmileyChris/django-countries), licensed under the MIT License. Pursuant to the copyright notice requirement of that license, the full contents of the license agreement as of Nov 5, 2022, are reproduced below. Copyright (c) 2010 Chris Beaven and contributors Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. """ import argparse import json import os import sys # This script requires at least Python 3.5. if sys.version_info[1] < 5: raise SystemError("Your python3 ({}.{}.{}) is too old. You need at least 3.5.".format(sys.version_info[0], sys.version_info[1], sys.version_info[2])) def flag(code: str) -> str: """ Generate a regional indicator symbol from an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. This code is adapted from Django Countries: https://github.com/SmileyChris/django-countries/blob/732030e5c912875927fcc012e0bb2e392ae10a0b/django_countries/fields.py#L143 which at the time of adaptation was licensed under MIT: https://github.com/SmileyChris/django-countries/blob/732030e5c912875927fcc012e0bb2e392ae10a0b/LICENSE which permits modification and distribution of code. """ OFFSET = 127397 if not code: return "" points = [ord(x) + OFFSET for x in code.upper()] return chr(points[0]) + chr(points[1]) def main(args: list) -> int: """ Main program function. Does everything the script is supposed to do. """ # Set up options and parse arguments. parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=""" Generate a markdown table of the Libreddit instances in the instances.JSON file. By default, this will read the file 'instances.json' in the current working directory, and will write to 'instances.md' in that same directory. WARNING: This script will overwrite the output file if it exists. """) parser.add_argument("INPUT_FILE", default="instances.json", nargs="?", help="location of instances JSON") parser.add_argument("-o", "--output", dest="OUTPUT_FILE", default="instances.md", help="where to write the markdown table; \ if a file exists at this path, it will be overwritten") parsed_args = parser.parse_args(args[1:]) try: with open(parsed_args.INPUT_FILE) as f: instances = json.load(f) except Exception as e: sys.stderr.write("Error opening '{}' for reading:\n".format(parsed_args.INPUT_FILE)) sys.stderr.write("\t" + e.__str__() + "\n") return 1 table_preamble = "|URL|Network|Version|Location|Behind Cloudflare?|Comment|\n|-|-|-|-|-|-|\n" table_rows = [] for instance in instances["instances"]: url = "" network = "" version = "" country = "(n/a)" cloudflare = False description = "" if "url" in instance: url = instance["url"] network = "WWW" elif "onion" in instance: url = instance["onion"] network = "Tor" elif "i2p" in instance: url = instance["i2p"] network = "I2P" else: # Couldn't determine network, so skip instance. continue # Version is a required parameter. If this is not in the JSON, skip # this instance. if "version" not in instance: sys.stderr.write("Skipping '{}': no version recorded".format(url)) continue else: version = instance["version"] if "country" in instance: country = instance["country"] if "cloudflare" in instance and instance["cloudflare"]: cloudflare = True if "description" in instance: description = instance["description"] location = "" try: fl = flag(country) location = fl + " " + country except Exception: location = country table_rows.append("|{0}|{1}|{2}|{3}|{4}|{5}|\n".format( url, network, version, location, "\u2705" if cloudflare else "", description )) if parsed_args.OUTPUT_FILE == "-": out = sys.stdout else: try: out = open(parsed_args.OUTPUT_FILE, "w" if os.path.exists(parsed_args.OUTPUT_FILE) else "x") except Exception as e: sys.stderr.write("Error opening '{}' for writing:\n".format(parsed_args.OUTPUT_FILE)) sys.stderr.write("\t" + e.__str__() + "\n") return 1 out.write(table_preamble) for row in table_rows: out.write(row) out.close() return 0 if __name__ == "__main__": rc = main(sys.argv) sys.exit(rc)