tweeper.git
4 years agosrc/Tweeper.php: allow overriding the User-Agent in cURL requests
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 9 Jun 2020 22:27:35 +0000 (00:27 +0200)]
src/Tweeper.php: allow overriding the User-Agent in cURL requests

Allow overriding the User-Agent in cURL requests, to make it possible to
use different user agents for different requests.

This can be useful to have a finer control on the version of the site
served by the different supported services.

4 years agosrc/Tweeper.php: use file_get_contents to retrieve the local stylesheet
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 9 Jun 2020 22:11:12 +0000 (00:11 +0200)]
src/Tweeper.php: use file_get_contents to retrieve the local stylesheet

Using Tweeper::getUrlContents(), which uses cURL, is really overkill to
get local file contents, keep things simple and use file_get_contents.

4 years agoFix style issues pointed out by PHP_CodeSniffer
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 8 Jun 2020 21:58:50 +0000 (23:58 +0200)]
Fix style issues pointed out by PHP_CodeSniffer

Fix the following errors from PHP_CodeSniffer with the help og phpcbf:

FILE: /home/ao2/Proj/Tweeper/tweeper/tweeper.php
----------------------------------------------------------------------
FOUND 3 ERRORS AFFECTING 3 LINES
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  54 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
  65 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
 124 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
----------------------------------------------------------------------
PHPCBF CAN FIX THE 3 MARKED SNIFF VIOLATIONS AUTOMATICALLY
----------------------------------------------------------------------

FILE: /home/ao2/Proj/Tweeper/tweeper/src/Tweeper.php
----------------------------------------------------------------------
FOUND 15 ERRORS AFFECTING 12 LINES
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 162 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
 169 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
 183 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
 212 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
 313 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
 313 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
 315 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
 378 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
 378 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
 437 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
 466 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
 466 | ERROR | [x] Short array syntax must be used to define arrays
----------------------------------------------------------------------
PHPCBF CAN FIX THE 12 MARKED SNIFF VIOLATIONS AUTOMATICALLY
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Time: 273ms; Memory: 10MB

4 years agoUpdate copyright years in recently modified files
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 8 Jun 2020 21:55:06 +0000 (23:55 +0200)]
Update copyright years in recently modified files

4 years agoAdd back partial support for twitter.com using the old twitter mobile UI
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 8 Jun 2020 21:49:15 +0000 (23:49 +0200)]
Add back partial support for twitter.com using the old twitter mobile UI

On June 1st 2020 twitter.com completely disabled serving the legacy UI
which tweeper kept supporting using a User-Agent trick.

The new official UI uses retrieves json after authenticating with
cookies and generates the HTML client-side, so it's too complicated for
the current Tweeper structure.

Work around the issue with the help of another User-Agent trick, pretend
to be an old Android phone, which makes tweeper serve the old mobile UI
which can be easily scraped by tweeper.

This approach looses support for some functionalities like embedded
media but at least makes Tweeper work again with twitter.com

4 years agoAdd option to enable or disable showing verbose output
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 8 Jun 2020 21:32:00 +0000 (23:32 +0200)]
Add option to enable or disable showing verbose output

Tweeper by default shows non-fatal errors and warnings from the php XML
parser.

These messages can be distracting for some users, so add a '-v' option
to enable or disable the verbose output.

Keep the current behavior of showing verbose output as the default one
for backwards compatibility, the user can pass '-v 0' to silence it.

4 years agosrc/Tweeper.php: do not disable CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 3 Jun 2020 20:15:49 +0000 (22:15 +0200)]
src/Tweeper.php: do not disable CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER

Do not disable CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER to
actually enforce certificate verification on TLS connections.

This was a relic of some early experimental code and should have not
made it to the stable release.

Moreover the value passed to CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST was also of the
wrong type, it should have been an integer rather than a boolean.

4 years agosrc/Tweeper.php: use a minimal User-Agent string to fix scraping twitter.com
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 9 Feb 2020 22:31:43 +0000 (23:31 +0100)]
src/Tweeper.php: use a minimal User-Agent string to fix scraping twitter.com

Twitter.com has started serving the user timeline via json when the user
agent is a modern browser, this breaks scraping in Tweeper which expects
html content.

Remove any version info from the User-Agent header used by Tweeper to
make twitter.com think it is talking with a very old browser, tricking
it into serving html content.

NOTE: Tweeper cannot just use the default User-Agent from the CURL
library because this would break scraping Facebook.com; using a minimal
but still browser-like User-Agent seems to be a viable common
denominator for all sites currently supported by Tweeper.

5 years agoNEWS: add release notes for the v1.4.1 release v1.4.1
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 7 Sep 2019 19:57:34 +0000 (21:57 +0200)]
NEWS: add release notes for the v1.4.1 release

5 years agosrc/Tweeper.php: bump version in the User-Agent string
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 6 Sep 2019 21:19:55 +0000 (23:19 +0200)]
src/Tweeper.php: bump version in the User-Agent string

By using a more recent version of the User-Agent, twitter.com will
return entries in the result when visiting hashtag pages.

This fixes scraping hashtag pages.

This change is similar to what was done in commit 45060bb (Tweeper.php:
bump version in the User-Agent string, 2018-08-13)

5 years agosrc/Tweeper.php: enable cookie handling to fix scraping twitter.com
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:06:15 +0000 (22:06 +0200)]
src/Tweeper.php: enable cookie handling to fix scraping twitter.com

When the user agent used by a client matches an actual browser,
twitter.com enables content-security-policy and redirects the client on
the first request to make it reload the content.

After the redirection, the server assumes that the client sets cookies
appropriately, however cURL does not do that by default.

Enable cookie handling in cURL to fix scraping twitter.com.

NOTE: the CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE option is set to an empty string to enable
in-memory handling of the cookies, removing the need for a temporary
file on the filesystem, see:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

6 years agoNEWS: add release notes for the v1.4.0 release v1.4.0
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 16 Nov 2018 22:16:07 +0000 (23:16 +0100)]
NEWS: add release notes for the v1.4.0 release

6 years agosrc/Tweeper.php: make enclosure validate when there is no Content-Length
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 16 Nov 2018 22:06:38 +0000 (23:06 +0100)]
src/Tweeper.php: make enclosure validate when there is no Content-Length

When the server does not provide a Content-Length header, curl_getinfo()
would return a negative value for "download_content_length".

However RSS recommends to use 0 when the enclosure's size cannot be
determined.

See: https://www.feedvalidator.org/docs/error/UseZeroForUnknown.html

6 years agosrc/rss_converter_dilbert.com.xsl: fix generating enclosures
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:27:16 +0000 (18:27 +0100)]
src/rss_converter_dilbert.com.xsl: fix generating enclosures

Enclosures were not generated for Dilbert.com because the URL of the
picture are protocol-relative and curl cannot work with these URLs.

Fix the URLs by prepending a protocol schema to them.

6 years agoAdd option to enable or disable showing multimedia content in RSS items
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:50:12 +0000 (11:50 +0100)]
Add option to enable or disable showing multimedia content in RSS items

Tweeper by default shows multimedia contents like Twitter and Instagram
images in items descriptions.

However sometimes just having multimedia contents in the <enclosure/>
element may be enough, so make it optional to also have the content in
the item description.

Keep the current default behavior for backwards compatibility.

6 years agoFix PHP_CodeSniffer errors
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:24:30 +0000 (17:24 +0100)]
Fix PHP_CodeSniffer errors

Fix the following errors reported by PHP_CodeSniffer:

FILE: .../tweeper.php
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOUND 1 ERROR AFFECTING 1 LINE
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1 | ERROR | [x] The PHP open tag must be followed by exactly one blank line
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
PHPCBF CAN FIX THE 1 MARKED SNIFF VIOLATIONS AUTOMATICALLY
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

FILE: .../src/Tweeper.php
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOUND 6 ERRORS AFFECTING 2 LINES
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 373 | ERROR | [x] Incorrect spacing between argument "$host" and equals sign; expected 1 but found 0
 373 | ERROR | [x] Incorrect spacing between default value and equals sign for argument "$host"; expected 1 but found 0
 373 | ERROR | [x] Incorrect spacing between argument "$validate_scheme" and equals sign; expected 1 but found 0
 373 | ERROR | [x] Incorrect spacing between default value and equals sign for argument "$validate_scheme"; expected 1 but found 0
 388 | ERROR | [x] Inline comments must start with a capital letter
 388 | ERROR | [x] Inline comments must end in full-stops, exclamation marks, colons, question marks, or closing parentheses
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PHPCBF CAN FIX THE 6 MARKED SNIFF VIOLATIONS AUTOMATICALLY
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

FILE: .../autoload.php
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOUND 1 ERROR AFFECTING 1 LINE
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1 | ERROR | [x] The PHP open tag must be followed by exactly one blank line
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
PHPCBF CAN FIX THE 1 MARKED SNIFF VIOLATIONS AUTOMATICALLY
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Time: 260ms; Memory: 10Mb

6 years agoTODO: remove the item about trigger_error, the concern has been addressed
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:18:12 +0000 (17:18 +0100)]
TODO: remove the item about trigger_error, the concern has been addressed

Tweeper stopped using E_USER_ERROR and survives after trigger_error()
calls.

6 years agosrc/Tweeper.php: add a retry mechanism for cURL sessions
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:03:06 +0000 (17:03 +0100)]
src/Tweeper.php: add a retry mechanism for cURL sessions

Sometimes the connection to a remote host may stall and a resource
cannot be retrieved. This makes Tweeper hang for a very long time which
can be annoying for users.

Setting a shorter timeout and a retry mechanism usually works around the
problem allowing the resource to be retrieved eventually.

Implement such a mechanism by adding curlExec() method and while at it
move non-curl related messages outside of getUrlContents() and
getUrlInfo() to give the user a better understanding of what actually
failed when even the retry mechanism was not able to retrieve the
resource.

6 years agosrc/Tweeper.php: harmonize error messages
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 14 Nov 2018 14:57:36 +0000 (15:57 +0100)]
src/Tweeper.php: harmonize error messages

Since the Tweeper class is supposed to be used as a library don't let
any error be fatal and convert all current uses of E_USER_ERROR into
E_USER_WARNING.

Also convert the few instances of E_USER_NOTICE into E_USER_WARNING.

Finally, stop using error_log as well in favour of trigger_error which
provides more context in the produced message.

6 years agosrc/Tweeper.php: make code more robust by properly check return values
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:56:44 +0000 (17:56 +0100)]
src/Tweeper.php: make code more robust by properly check return values

Check return values to catch error earlier, and while at it also emit
more error messages in case of failures.

6 years agoAdd option to enable or disable showing usernames in RSS items
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:14:09 +0000 (16:14 +0100)]
Add option to enable or disable showing usernames in RSS items

Tweeper shows usernames by default in items created from multi-user
sites like Twitter or Instagram.

This is because  the main use case is to aggregate multiple feeds in the
same viewer, and in this scenario having some info about where the
messages is coming from can be useful.

However sometimes tweeper can be used to track one single feed and in
this case having always the same username repeated over and over is
unnecessary.

Make showing the username optional, but keep the current behavior as
default.

NOTE: for Twitter keep always showing the username in case of retweets
($screen-name != $user-name).

6 years agosrc/rss_converter_*.xsl: add missing generate-enclosure parameter
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:29:57 +0000 (16:29 +0100)]
src/rss_converter_*.xsl: add missing generate-enclosure parameter

XSL parameters do not necessarily need to be declared in the stylesheet
if no default value is explicitly set, however tweeper is doing that for
other stylesheet, so declare the parameter in rss_converter_pump.io.xsl
and rss_converter_dilbert.com.xsl as well for consistency.

6 years agosrc/Tweeper.php: silence error message when processing Instagram json
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 9 Nov 2018 14:42:28 +0000 (15:42 +0100)]
src/Tweeper.php: silence error message when processing Instagram json

Remove the "knobs" element from the Instagram json data because it
contains elements with an undefined namespace which results in an error
message when json is converted to XML.

6 years agosrc/Tweeper.php: put a comment right before the code it refers to
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 9 Nov 2018 14:40:17 +0000 (15:40 +0100)]
src/Tweeper.php: put a comment right before the code it refers to

6 years agosrc/Tweeper.php: rearrange blank lines to a consistent style
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 9 Nov 2018 14:25:01 +0000 (15:25 +0100)]
src/Tweeper.php: rearrange blank lines to a consistent style

In other parts of the file there is no blank line between and the
assignment and check for the return value of a function call.

Use the same style everywhere.

6 years agoRemove unneeded attribute extension-element-prefixes from xsl stylesheets
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 9 Nov 2018 14:21:24 +0000 (15:21 +0100)]
Remove unneeded attribute extension-element-prefixes from xsl stylesheets

It looks like the "extension-element-prefixes" attribute is not strictly
needed for php extension functions to work, so remove it.

If it turns out that the attribute is actually needed in some cases it
can always be added back.

6 years agorss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: explain why the style attribute is removed
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 8 Nov 2018 08:29:35 +0000 (09:29 +0100)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: explain why the style attribute is removed

Since commit 6817108 (rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: strip the style
attribute from HTML elements, 2017-06-08) the twitter.com stylesheet
removes the "style" attribute from elements when copying them.

This is in order to create a more visually neutral output, but also
because the style attribute may even contain dangerous content:
https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/warning/DangerousStyleAttr.html

However someone who reads the code may not be familiar with (or have
forgotten) why this is done, so explain that in a comment to avoid them
the burden of digging in the project history.

6 years agosrc/rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: add a label to tweets containing GIFs
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:17:41 +0000 (17:17 +0200)]
src/rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: add a label to tweets containing GIFs

The static scraped content only provides a preview of GIF files with the
first frame only, just like in the case of videos.

Set a label when a tweet contains a GIF so that the user can decide to
open the tweet in a full fledged browser to properly see the GIF.

6 years agosrc/rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: make images more adaptive
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:14:25 +0000 (17:14 +0200)]
src/rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: make images more adaptive

Adapt images to the screen width to avoid horizontal scrolling in the
feed reader.

6 years agoTweeper.php: bump version in the User-Agent string
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:08:03 +0000 (17:08 +0200)]
Tweeper.php: bump version in the User-Agent string

By using a more recent version of the User-Agent, twitter.com will
return more entries in the result when visiting hashtag pages.

This makes tracking hashtag pages more usable.

This change is similar to what was done in commit 0db2f37 ("Tweeper.php:
bump version in the User-Agent string", 2018-06-06)

6 years agoNEWS: add release notes for the v1.3.0 release v1.3.0
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 6 Jun 2018 13:50:13 +0000 (15:50 +0200)]
NEWS: add release notes for the v1.3.0 release

6 years agosrc/rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: only output channel image when it's available
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 6 Jun 2018 13:36:39 +0000 (15:36 +0200)]
src/rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: only output channel image when it's available

Hashtag pages do not have an image usable as a channel logo, and in
cases like this the <url/> element would be empty, but this would make
the feed invalid according to https://www.feedvalidator.org

So, to produce feeds which validate, avoid outputting the whole <image/>
element when there is no suitable image to use as a channel logo.

6 years agosrc/rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: fix getting description for hashtag pages
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 6 Jun 2018 13:34:12 +0000 (15:34 +0200)]
src/rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: fix getting description for hashtag pages

6 years agoTODO: remove the entry about instagram tags, tweeper can now track them
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 6 Jun 2018 12:59:30 +0000 (14:59 +0200)]
TODO: remove the entry about instagram tags, tweeper can now track them

6 years agosrc/rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: add support for Instagram.com tags
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 6 Jun 2018 12:57:10 +0000 (14:57 +0200)]
src/rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: add support for Instagram.com tags

Supporting Instagram tags is quite easy, so let's do it and while at it
refactor how the channel description is set depending of the kind of
page.

6 years agosrc/rss_converter_pump.io.xsl: fix getting the channel logo URL
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 6 Jun 2018 12:46:07 +0000 (14:46 +0200)]
src/rss_converter_pump.io.xsl: fix getting the channel logo URL

6 years agoTweeper.php: bump version in the User-Agent string
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 6 Jun 2018 11:20:28 +0000 (13:20 +0200)]
Tweeper.php: bump version in the User-Agent string

By using a more recent version of the User-Agent, twitter.com will
return more entries in the result when visiting hashtag pages.

This makes tracking hashtag pages actually usable.

Tested with https://twitter.com/hashtag/tweeper

6 years agoTweeper.php: update the User-Agent string to fix parsing twitter.com
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 24 May 2018 21:43:16 +0000 (23:43 +0200)]
Tweeper.php: update the User-Agent string to fix parsing twitter.com

It looks like twitter.com started serving the mobile version of the site
to old browsers and Tweeper cannot parse that content.

By using a more up to date User-Agent string twitter.com returns the
desktop version of the page which Tweeper can process without problems.

6 years agorss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: don't put location coordinates in screen name
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:12:22 +0000 (18:12 +0200)]
rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: don't put location coordinates in screen name

Remove location coordinates from the location screen name as the latter
also shows up in item titles, but still emit the coordinates in the
channel description.

6 years agorss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: use the screen name in item titles
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:11:04 +0000 (18:11 +0200)]
rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: use the screen name in item titles

The user name is not always defined, for example in case of locations,
so use the screen name in item titles.

6 years agorss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: fix scraping Instagram.com
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:08:59 +0000 (18:08 +0200)]
rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: fix scraping Instagram.com

6 years agorss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: show again the user name in the description
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:49:41 +0000 (12:49 +0100)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: show again the user name in the description

Having the user name also in the description makes it easier to see who
the author is in case of re-tweeted messages.

Leave the line-break after the username to have the actual message start
at the beginning of the line, this is done to preserve the formatting of
the original message as much as possible.

6 years agoUpdate copyright years
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 15 Mar 2018 08:04:15 +0000 (09:04 +0100)]
Update copyright years

6 years agoINSTALL: add some notes for about dependencies
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 15 Mar 2018 08:00:03 +0000 (09:00 +0100)]
INSTALL: add some notes for about dependencies

6 years agoINSTALL: explain better what "usable HTML" means in this context
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 15 Mar 2018 07:30:16 +0000 (08:30 +0100)]
INSTALL: explain better what "usable HTML" means in this context

6 years agoNEWS: add release notes for the v1.2.0 release v1.2.0
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 24 Feb 2018 15:29:31 +0000 (16:29 +0100)]
NEWS: add release notes for the v1.2.0 release

6 years agorss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: fix validation for Instagram location feeds
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:33:58 +0000 (15:33 +0100)]
rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: fix validation for Instagram location feeds

Avoid outputting an <image/> element without an empty <url/>, this
breaks validation.

6 years agoTweeper.php: a more robust fix for 4b9692a19e06f3cf698d23a3854fd34b9914a32a
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:10:52 +0000 (16:10 +0100)]
Tweeper.php: a more robust fix for 4b9692a19e06f3cf698d23a3854fd34b9914a32a

The "qe" element in the json data is the one containing the problematic
element mentioned in commit 4b9692a19e06f3cf698d23a3854fd34b9914a32a and
it may contain multiple elements with problematic names, so just remove
the "qe" element altogether.

6 years agorss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: preserve spaces in tweet content
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:34:02 +0000 (15:34 +0100)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: preserve spaces in tweet content

Wrap the tweet content into a span element with a CSS style attribute
set to "white-space: pre-wrap", this allows to have the spaces rendered
like on the twitter web page: with spaces and newlines preserved.

This is especially desirable if the tweet content contains any ASCII
art, like in https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/955651919279722496

6 years agorss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: add support for permalink URLs
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:29:44 +0000 (15:29 +0100)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: add support for permalink URLs

This way it is possible to generate an RSS feed of all the replies to
a certain tweet using its permalink URL.

6 years agorss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: add a line break after the "(Video)" label
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 13:55:10 +0000 (14:55 +0100)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: add a line break after the "(Video)" label

This is to start the actual original tweet content on a new line, this
is important for example if the content contains some ASCII art.

6 years agorss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: don't print the user name in description
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 13:48:06 +0000 (14:48 +0100)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: don't print the user name in description

This is in the spirit of leaving the tweet content untouched as much as
possible.

6 years agorss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: use a different rule to get the tweet user-name
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 13:43:57 +0000 (14:43 +0100)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: use a different rule to get the tweet user-name

Instead of looking for 'js-stream-tweet' in the class attribute, pick
the element which has the 'data-tweet-id' attribute, this is more
generic and works also with permalink tweets.

6 years agoTweeper.php: fix converting Instagram data to RSS
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 14 Jan 2018 18:46:54 +0000 (19:46 +0100)]
Tweeper.php: fix converting Instagram data to RSS

There is one new element in the json data served by Instagram named
"404_as_react", and this makes the conversion from json to XML fail
because names starting with a number are illegal in XML.

Fix the problem by prepending an underscore to the problematic name.

7 years agorss_converter_facebook.com.xsl: fix channel link, image, and description
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 6 Nov 2017 17:15:59 +0000 (18:15 +0100)]
rss_converter_facebook.com.xsl: fix channel link, image, and description

7 years agorss_converter_facebook.com.xsl: fix scraping facebook.com pages once again
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 6 Nov 2017 16:53:42 +0000 (17:53 +0100)]
rss_converter_facebook.com.xsl: fix scraping facebook.com pages once again

Add back support for 'userContentWrapper' which seems to be still used.

7 years agoTODO: add an entry about Instagram tags
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 6 Nov 2017 16:52:56 +0000 (17:52 +0100)]
TODO: add an entry about Instagram tags

7 years agorss_converter_facebook.com.xsl: fix scraping facebook.com pages once again
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:17:31 +0000 (13:17 +0200)]
rss_converter_facebook.com.xsl: fix scraping facebook.com pages once again

Tip: in order to get more posts, and not just the last two, append
"/posts" to the facebook page URL, or use the URL of the "See all" link
in the "Posts" section.

7 years agorss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: support scraping Instagram locations pages
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 10 Jul 2017 08:29:01 +0000 (10:29 +0200)]
rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: support scraping Instagram locations pages

7 years agorss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: improve the comment about full names
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 10 Jul 2017 08:05:31 +0000 (10:05 +0200)]
rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: improve the comment about full names

7 years agoNEWS: add release notes for the v1.1.0 release v1.1.0
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 27 Jun 2017 10:01:14 +0000 (12:01 +0200)]
NEWS: add release notes for the v1.1.0 release

7 years agoTODO: add an entry about the use of trigger_error()
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:59:31 +0000 (10:59 +0200)]
TODO: add an entry about the use of trigger_error()

7 years agoRemove support for Howtoons.com, the old blog is not available anymore
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:45:47 +0000 (10:45 +0200)]
Remove support for Howtoons.com, the old blog is not available anymore

7 years agoAdd an example of instrumentation to capture the HTML for later analysis
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 22 Jun 2017 08:52:41 +0000 (10:52 +0200)]
Add an example of instrumentation to capture the HTML for later analysis

7 years agorss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: filter out promoted tweets
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 22 Jun 2017 08:47:35 +0000 (10:47 +0200)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: filter out promoted tweets

7 years agorss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: strip the style attribute from HTML elements
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 8 Jun 2017 13:35:27 +0000 (15:35 +0200)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: strip the style attribute from HTML elements

Elements in an RSS item description are not supposed to have a style
attribute, and they don't really need to anyways, so filter it out in
the identity template.

This also fixes an issue with Twitter images being shown with a offset
in liferea.

7 years agorss_converter_facebook.com.xsl: match both the new and the old wrapper class
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 8 Mar 2017 08:20:01 +0000 (09:20 +0100)]
rss_converter_facebook.com.xsl: match both the new and the old wrapper class

Facebook still seems to use the "userContentWrapper" sometimes, it's not
clear if "fbUserContent" was only used for a short period of time or if
both are actually used; in the doubt support both.

7 years agoHACKING: add instructions about installing the Drupal style in PHP_CodeSniffer
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:41:35 +0000 (09:41 +0100)]
HACKING: add instructions about installing the Drupal style in PHP_CodeSniffer

7 years agoAdd the helper script tests/tweeper_file
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 9 Feb 2017 17:21:17 +0000 (18:21 +0100)]
Add the helper script tests/tweeper_file

The script allows to scrape a local file, this speeds up development and
testing.

7 years agoAdd the helper script tests/fetch_facebook_page.sh
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 9 Feb 2017 17:15:54 +0000 (18:15 +0100)]
Add the helper script tests/fetch_facebook_page.sh

The script helps retrieving the actual html of a public page on
facebook.com, ignoring the pages which require the CAPTCHA.

This allows to have a local copy of the page to test tweeper on.

7 years agoTweeper.php: allow to pass parameters to Tweeper::tweep()
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 9 Feb 2017 15:48:55 +0000 (16:48 +0100)]
Tweeper.php: allow to pass parameters to Tweeper::tweep()

This allows to call Tweeper::tweep() on file:// URLs which can make
development faster.

7 years agorss_converter_facebook.com.xsl: fix the URL of the channel image
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 9 Feb 2017 14:49:59 +0000 (15:49 +0100)]
rss_converter_facebook.com.xsl: fix the URL of the channel image

7 years agorss_converter_facebook.com.xsl: new wrapper classname
David Kalnischkies [Wed, 8 Feb 2017 23:52:00 +0000 (00:52 +0100)]
rss_converter_facebook.com.xsl: new wrapper classname

Facebook seems to have changed the classname of the wrapping div
from "userContentWrapper" to "fbUserContent".

8 years agoNEWS: add release notes for the v1.0.0 release v1.0.0
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Dec 2016 09:23:20 +0000 (10:23 +0100)]
NEWS: add release notes for the v1.0.0 release

The release numbering scheme has been changed to match what composer
expects.

8 years agocomposer.json: make the dependencies on symfony components more relaxed
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 10 Dec 2016 23:38:14 +0000 (00:38 +0100)]
composer.json: make the dependencies on symfony components more relaxed

8 years agoMakefile: mention DESTDIR in the "INSTALLATION COMPLETE" message
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 10 Dec 2016 21:01:47 +0000 (22:01 +0100)]
Makefile: mention DESTDIR in the "INSTALLATION COMPLETE" message

8 years agoMakefile: make the symlink in BIN_DIR refer to the executable in DESTDIR
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 10 Dec 2016 20:59:19 +0000 (21:59 +0100)]
Makefile: make the symlink in BIN_DIR refer to the executable in DESTDIR

Also make the symlink relative, this way it is always valid whether
DESTDIR is specified or not.

8 years agoMakefile: fix installation after the code restructuring
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 10 Dec 2016 20:57:38 +0000 (21:57 +0100)]
Makefile: fix installation after the code restructuring

8 years agotweeper: allow running tweeper from vendor/bin also when it's not a symlink
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 10 Dec 2016 18:34:57 +0000 (19:34 +0100)]
tweeper: allow running tweeper from vendor/bin also when it's not a symlink

8 years agoautoload.php: improve the comment about the system-wide dependencies
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 6 Nov 2016 09:06:19 +0000 (10:06 +0100)]
autoload.php: improve the comment about the system-wide dependencies

8 years agoTODO: add a note about the version of the dependencies in composer.json
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 6 Nov 2016 08:43:06 +0000 (09:43 +0100)]
TODO: add a note about the version of the dependencies in composer.json

8 years agoUpdate copyright years in recently modified files
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 5 Nov 2016 18:25:05 +0000 (19:25 +0100)]
Update copyright years in recently modified files

8 years agotweeper: allow to run tweeper either with or without composer
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 5 Nov 2016 16:55:56 +0000 (17:55 +0100)]
tweeper: allow to run tweeper either with or without composer

8 years agoAdd a composer.json file
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 4 Nov 2016 12:18:08 +0000 (13:18 +0100)]
Add a composer.json file

8 years agorss_converters_*.xsl: prefix the namespace when calling Tweeper class methods
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 4 Nov 2016 17:02:11 +0000 (18:02 +0100)]
rss_converters_*.xsl: prefix the namespace when calling Tweeper class methods

The Tweeper class is now in a namespace, without this change the XSLT
processor would give errors like this:

PHP Warning:  XSLTProcessor::transformToXml(): Unable to call handler Tweeper::epochToRssDate() in .../src/Tweeper.php on line 356

8 years agotweeper: move the main Tweeper class to its own file under src/
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 4 Nov 2016 12:13:54 +0000 (13:13 +0100)]
tweeper: move the main Tweeper class to its own file under src/

This matches more closely the project structure expected by composer
packages.

8 years agoTODO: improve wording and remove fullstops at the end of items
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 4 Nov 2016 15:02:26 +0000 (16:02 +0100)]
TODO: improve wording and remove fullstops at the end of items

8 years agoFix information leakage by validating the URL scheme
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 30 Oct 2016 10:34:22 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
Fix information leakage by validating the URL scheme

Validate the scheme to prevent leaking information by abusing the
file:// scheme.

Before this change it was possible to see what files are available on
the system running tweeper.

The script in tests/test_information_leakage.sh shows the problem on
earlier versions.

Here is an execution with tweeper-0.6:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
URL file://twitter.com//etc/passwd
--> /etc/passwd
    exists

URL file://twitter.com//etc/file_with_an_unlikely_name
... /etc/file_with_an_unlikely_name
    does not exist

Staring a test server

URL file://twitter.com//etc/passwd
--> /etc/passwd on http://localhost:8000
    exists

URL file://twitter.com//etc/file_with_an_unlikely_name
... /etc/file_with_an_unlikely_name on http://localhost:8000
    does not exist

Shutting down the test server
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Here is an execution after this fix:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
PHP Fatal error:  unsupported scheme: file in /home/ao2/Proj/Tweeper/tweeper/tweeper.php on line 323
URL file://twitter.com//etc/passwd
... /etc/passwd
    does not exist

PHP Fatal error:  unsupported scheme: file in /home/ao2/Proj/Tweeper/tweeper/tweeper.php on line 323
URL file://twitter.com//etc/file_with_an_unlikely_name
... /etc/file_with_an_unlikely_name
    does not exist

Staring a test server

URL file://twitter.com//etc/passwd
... /etc/passwd on http://localhost:8000
    does not exist

URL file://twitter.com//etc/file_with_an_unlikely_name
... /etc/file_with_an_unlikely_name on http://localhost:8000
    does not exist

Shutting down the test server
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

8 years agotweeper.php: check the return value of Tweeper::tweep()
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 30 Oct 2016 09:28:41 +0000 (10:28 +0100)]
tweeper.php: check the return value of Tweeper::tweep()

If the tweep() method fails return 1 to the calling process so that it
can know that something failed.

8 years agotweeper.php: check curl_exec() return value
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 30 Oct 2016 09:04:51 +0000 (10:04 +0100)]
tweeper.php: check curl_exec() return value

Also show the message of curl_error() when curl_exec() fails, this way
it's easier to diagnose problems.

8 years agotweeper.php: support "application/pdf" as an enclosure content type
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 29 Oct 2016 17:34:10 +0000 (19:34 +0200)]
tweeper.php: support "application/pdf" as an enclosure content type

8 years agotweeper.php: support "application/octet-stream" as an enclosure content type
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 29 Oct 2016 17:17:00 +0000 (19:17 +0200)]
tweeper.php: support "application/octet-stream" as an enclosure content type

This allows binary attachment without a more specific content type to be
supported for the enclosure element.

Adding "application/octet-stream" also covers the weird case of servers
sending multiple Content-Type headers, e.g.:

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: Apache
< ETag: "a46d495ba00c35580f83344dd523ece2:1473631283"
< Last-Modified: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 22:01:22 GMT
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 14346711
< Content-Type: audio/mpeg
< Content-Type: application/octet-stream
< content-disposition: attachment
< Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 23:36:11 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< Content-Type: application/octet-stream
< content-disposition: attachment

In this case the ideal solution would be to use the more _specific_
content type, but CURL just remembers the _last_ one ad it's not really
worth parsing the HTTP headers in tweeper just for this rare scenario.

Reported-by: Torsten Grote
8 years agoNEWS: add release notes for the v0.6 release v0.6
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 23 May 2016 14:17:37 +0000 (16:17 +0200)]
NEWS: add release notes for the v0.6 release

8 years agorss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: strip unneeded trailing space
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 23 May 2016 14:16:57 +0000 (16:16 +0200)]
rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: strip unneeded trailing space

8 years agoAdd a HACKING file to describe the coding style used in the project
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 23 May 2016 13:55:34 +0000 (15:55 +0200)]
Add a HACKING file to describe the coding style used in the project

8 years agoINSTALL: mention php-symfony-property-access as a dependency
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 23 May 2016 13:45:43 +0000 (15:45 +0200)]
INSTALL: mention php-symfony-property-access as a dependency

8 years agotweeper.php: fix a problem with https URLs ending up in the enclosure element
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 23 May 2016 13:32:27 +0000 (15:32 +0200)]
tweeper.php: fix a problem with https URLs ending up in the enclosure element

When the remote host forces every URLs to be redirected to https, the
info returned by Tweeper::getUrlInfo() would contain an https URL, which
will end up being used in the "url" attribute of the enclosure element,
and this is invalid according to the RSS specification.

So make sure that an http URL is actually used for the "url" attribute.

8 years agoUse php:functionString() in the stylesheets where appropriate
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 23 May 2016 13:28:07 +0000 (15:28 +0200)]
Use php:functionString() in the stylesheets where appropriate

Instead of converting to string in XSL and then calling php:function(),
use directly php:functionString() when calling PHP functions which
actually expect a string argument.

Besides possible performance improvements, this is done mainly for
readability.

8 years agoDon't convert the timestamp to a number when calling php:functionString()
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 23 May 2016 12:58:45 +0000 (14:58 +0200)]
Don't convert the timestamp to a number when calling php:functionString()

It's not needed to convert the $timestamp variable to a number before
passing it as an argument to php:functionString() as the latter will
convert it to a string anyways.

8 years agoTODO: remove entry about using enclosure for pump.io images
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 23 May 2016 12:52:18 +0000 (14:52 +0200)]
TODO: remove entry about using enclosure for pump.io images