#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ This mirror status checker determines whether CSC mirror is up-to-date with upstream """ import requests from arch import Arch from debian import Debian from kernel import Kernel from openbsd import OpenBSD from dateparser.search import search_dates # this library seems to be super slow but the other library: dateutil.parser gets some errors # http://theautomatic.net/2018/12/18/2-packages-for-extracting-dates-from-a-string-of-text-in-python/ import re # import regular expressions to remove stray numbers in string that might interfere with date finding import json # import json to read distro info stored in json file import datefinder # another date finding library def checker(directory_URL, file_name): page = requests.get(directory_URL).text indexOfFile = page.find(file_name) # print(page) # remove stray numbers (file size numbers in particular) that might interfere with date finding segment_clean = re.sub(r'\s\d+\s', ' ', page[indexOfFile:]) # removes numbers for size segment_clean = re.sub(r'\s\d+\w*\s', ' ', page[indexOfFile:]) # removes numbers + size unit. e.x. 50kb # print(segment_clean) # implementation using dateparser.search.search_dates # notes: some dates don't parse correctly with this tool # print(search_dates(page[indexOfFile:], languages=['en'])) # print(search_dates(page[indexOfFile:])[0]) # finds the dates in the segment after the file name # notes: a generator will be returned by the datefinder module. I'm typecasting it to a list. Please read the note of caution provided at the bottom. matches = list(datefinder.find_dates(segment_clean)) # print(matches) if len(matches) > 0: date = matches[0] # date is of type datetime.datetime return(date.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S")) else: return('No dates found') if __name__ == "__main__": """for distro in [Arch, Debian, Kernel, OpenBSD]: try: distro.print_output(distro.check()) except requests.exceptions.RequestException as err: print(f"Error: {distro.name()}\n{err}")""" distros = json.load(open('distros.json',)) print(distros) for distro in distros: print(distro[0] + ":") print("CSC mirror: " + checker(distro[1], distro[3])) print("Official distro: " + checker(distro[2], distro[3]))