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'NNTP' | 'spool' )News::Scan - gather and report Usenet newsgroup statistics
use News::Scan;
my $scan = News::Scan->new;
This module provides a class whose objects can be used to gather and report Usenet newsgroup statistics.
OPTIONS is a list of named parameters (i.e. given in key-value pairs).
Valid options are
The value of this option is the name of the newsgroup you wish to scan.
The value of this option should be either 'spool' or 'NNTP' (case is
not significant). Any other value will produce an error (see the error
method description below). A value of 'spool' indicates that you would
like to
scan articles in a spool (see the Spool option below). A value of
'NNTP' indicates that articles should be retrieved from your NNTP
server (see the NNTPServer option below).
The value of this option should be the path to the spool directory that
contains the articles you would like to scan. This option is ignored
unless the value of From is 'spool'.
The value of this option (in the form server:port, with both being
optional--see Net::NNTP for the semantics of omitting one or both of
these parameters) indicates the NNTP server from which to retrieve
articles. This option is ignored unless From is 'NNTP'. See the
description of the NNTPAuthLogin and NNTPAuthPasswd options below.
The value of this option should be a valid NNTP authentication login for your NNTP server. This option is only necessary if your NNTP server requires authentication.
The value of this option should be the password corresponding to the login in NNTPAuthLogin. Having this hardcoded in a script is evil, and there should be a much better way.
The value of this option indicates the length of the period (in days) immediately prior to invocation of the program from which you would like to scan articles. The default period is seven (7) days.
The value of this option is a Perl regular expression that accepts quoted
lines and rejects unquoted or original lines. The default regular
expression is ^\s{0,3}(?:|:|\S+>|\+\+)>.
The value of this option should be a reference to an array containing regular expressions that accept email addresses of posters whose articles you wish to ignore.
The value of this option should be a reference to a hash whose keys
are email addresses that should be transformed into the email addresses
that are their corresponding values, i.e. alias = 'real@address'>.
OPTIONS is a list of named parameters identical to those accepted by
new. Re-configure-ing an object after scanning is probably a bad
idea. This method returns undef if it encounters an error.
The following methods are the actual underlying methods used to set and retrieve the configuration options of the same name (modulo case):
'NNTP' | 'spool' )These methods can be used to retrieve information from the
News::Scan object or ask it to perform some action.
Use this method to determine whether an object has encountered an error
condition. The return value of error is guaranteed to be 0
after any method completes successfully (except error). (Keep in
mind that this will also overwrite any previous error message.) If there
has been an error, this method should return some useful message.
If provided, MESSAGE sets the object's error message.
Returns the number of articles accounted for.
Returns the volume of traffic (in bytes) to the newsgroup in the period.
Returns the volume (in bytes) generated by headers.
Returns the number of lines consumed by headers.
Returns the volume (in bytes) generated by message bodies.
Returns the number of lines consumed by message bodies.
Returns the volume (in bytes) of text which has been determined to be original (see QuoteRE). Note that original traffic is a subset of body traffic.
Returns the number of lines that are determined to be original.
Returns the number of messages that had a cutline (/^-- $/).
Returns the volume (in bytes) generated by signatures.
Returns the number of lines consumed by signatures.
Use this method to determine the date (in seconds since the Epoch) that the oldest article found within the period was posted to Usenet.
If TIME is given, it is treated as a candidate for the earliest
article. If TIME is successful (i.e. is less than the previous
earliest), this method returns 1, else 0.
Use this method to determine the date (in seconds since the Epoch) that the youngest article found within the period was posted to Usenet.
If TIME is given, it is treated as a candidate for the latest
article. If TIME is successful (i.e. is greater than the previous
latest), this method returns 1, else 0.
Returns the list of regular expressions used to determine whether an article from a given email address should be ignored.
Returns a reference to a hash whose keys are email addresses and whose
values are News::Scan::Poster objects corresponding to those email
addresses. See News::Scan::Poster.
Returns a reference to a hash whose keys are subjects and whose values
are News::Scan::Thread objects corresponding to those subjects. See
News::Scan::Thread.
Returns a reference to a hash whose keys are newsgroup names and whose values are the number of times the corresponding groups have been crossposted to.
Use this method to mirror the articles from the specified NNTP server to the specified spool. Please be kind to the NNTP server.
Instruct the object to gather information about the newsgroup.
See the eg/ directory in the News-Scan distribution, available from the CPAN--http://www.perl.com/CPAN/.
Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Copyright (c) 1997 Greg Bacon. All Rights Reserved. This library is free software. You may distribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
| News-Scan documentation | Contained in the News-Scan distribution. |
package News::Scan; use 5.004; use strict; use vars qw( $VERSION $AUTOLOAD ); use Carp; use IO::File; use IO::Seekable; ## get the seek constants use Mail::Address; use News::Scan::Article; use News::Scan::Poster; use News::Scan::Thread; $VERSION = '0.53'; ## play a fun little game here my $Have_Net_NNTP = 0; if (eval { require Net::NNTP }) { Net::NNTP->import; $Have_Net_NNTP++; } ## methods defined for our instances my %Permitted = ( name => undef, spool => undef, period => undef, aliases => undef, nntp_server => undef, nntp_auth_login => undef, nntp_auth_passwd => undef, nntp_client => undef, articles => undef, volume => undef, header_volume => undef, header_lines => undef, body_volume => undef, body_lines => undef, orig_volume => undef, orig_lines => undef, sig_volume => undef, sig_lines => undef, signatures => undef, ); sub new { my $class = shift; my $self = { news_scan_posters => {}, news_scan_xposts => {}, news_scan_threads => {}, news_scan_earliest => $^T, news_scan_latest => 0, news_scan_excludes => [], news_scan_aliases => {}, }; bless $self, $class; if (@_) { $self->configure(@_); if ($self->error) { return $self; } } $self->init; $self; } sub AUTOLOAD { my $self = $_[0]; my $class = ref $self || croak "`$self' is not an object"; my $name = $AUTOLOAD; $name =~ s/^.*:://; unless (exists $Permitted{$name}) { croak "Can't access `$name' field in class `$class'"; } eval <<EOSub; sub $name { my \$self = shift; \$self->error(0); if (\@_) { my \$old = \$self->{'news_scan_$name'}; \$self->{'news_scan_$name'} = shift; return \$old; } else { return \$self->{'news_scan_$name'}; } } EOSub goto &$name; } sub configure { my $self = shift; my %arg = @_; $self->error(0); if (exists $arg{From}) { $self->from(delete $arg{From}); return undef if $self->error; } if (exists $arg{Group}) { $self->name(delete $arg{Group}); } if (exists $arg{Spool}) { $self->spool(delete $arg{Spool}); } if (exists $arg{NNTPServer}) { $self->nntp_server(delete $arg{NNTPServer}); } if (exists $arg{NNTPAuthLogin}) { $self->nntp_auth_login(delete $arg{NNTPAuthLogin}); } if (exists $arg{NNTPAuthPasswd}) { $self->nntp_auth_passwd(delete $arg{NNTPAuthPasswd}); } if (exists $arg{Period}) { $self->period(delete $arg{Period}); } else { $self->period(7); } if (exists $arg{QuoteRE}) { $self->quote_re(delete $arg{QuoteRE}); return undef if $self->error; } else { $self->quote_re('^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+)'); } if (exists $arg{Exclude}) { $self->exclude(delete $arg{Exclude}); return undef if $self->error; } if (exists $arg{Aliases}) { $self->aliases(delete $arg{Aliases}); } 1; } sub init { my $self = shift; $self->error(0); $self->articles(0); $self->volume(0); $self->header_volume(0); $self->header_lines(0); $self->body_volume(0); $self->body_lines(0); $self->orig_volume(0); $self->orig_lines(0); $self->sig_volume(0); $self->sig_lines(0); $self->signatures(0); } sub earliest { my $self = shift; if (@_) { my $try = shift; if ($try < $self->{'news_scan_earliest'}) { $self->{'news_scan_earliest'} = $try; return 1; ## indicate success } else { return 0; } } else { return $self->{'news_scan_earliest'}; } } sub latest { my $self = shift; if (@_) { my $try = shift; if ($try > $self->{'news_scan_latest'}) { $self->{'news_scan_latest'} = $try; return 1; ## indicate success } else { return 0; } } else { return $self->{'news_scan_latest'}; } } sub from { my $self = shift; $self->error(0); if (@_) { my $old = $self->{'news_scan_from'}; my $from = shift; if (lc($from) eq 'spool') { $self->{'news_scan_from'} = 'spool'; } elsif (lc($from) eq 'nntp') { unless ($Have_Net_NNTP) { croak <<EORant; You have requested to retrieve articles via NNTP, but you do not have the Net::NNTP module installed (at least where perl can find it). If you do not have Net::NNTP, get thee immediately to the CPAN (point your favorite web browser at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/). EORant } $self->{'news_scan_from'} = 'nntp'; } else { return $self->error("Invalid news source: `$from'"); } return $old; } else { return $self->{'news_scan_from'}; } } sub quote_re { my $self = shift; if (@_) { my $old = $self->{'news_scan_quote_re'}; my $new = shift; unless (eval { local $SIG{'__DIE__'}; local $_ = ''; /$new/, 1 }) { $@ =~ s/^(.*) at.*$/$1/s; return $self->error($@); } $self->error(0); $self->{'news_scan_quote_re'} = $new; return $old; } else { return $self->{'news_scan_quote_re'}; } } sub exclude { my $self = shift; my $pariahs = shift; unless (defined $pariahs and ref $pariahs) { return $self->error("exclude takes a reference to an array"); } $self->{'news_scan_excludes'} = $pariahs; my $matcher = 'local $_ = shift;'; $matcher .= 'study;' if @$pariahs >= 5; local $_; for (@$pariahs) { unless (eval { local $SIG{'__DIE__'}; /$_/i, 1 }) { $@ =~ s/^(.*) at.*$/$1/s; return $self->error("Bad pattern: $@\n"); } $matcher .= "return 1 if /$_/i;"; } $matcher .= 'return 0;'; $self->{'news_scan_excluded_sub'} = eval "sub { $matcher }"; return $self->error("Failed to generate exclusion: $@") if $@; $self->error(0); } sub excludes { \@{ $_[0]->{'news_scan_excludes'} } } sub excluded { my $self = shift; my $addr = shift; ## Mail::Address (or descendant) object $self->error(0); ## exclude empty addresses return 1 unless (defined $addr and ref $addr); my $decision = $self->{'news_scan_excluded_sub'}; unless (defined $decision and ref $decision) { return 0; } $decision->($addr->address); } sub nntp_connect { my $self = shift; $self->error(0); return if defined $self->nntp_client; my $client; my $nntp_host = ''; my $nntp_port = ''; my $server = $self->nntp_server || ''; if ($server) { ($nntp_host, $nntp_port) = split /:/, $server; } my @args = (); push @args, $nntp_host if $nntp_host; push @args, (Port => $nntp_port) if $nntp_port; $client = Net::NNTP->new(@args); unless (defined $client) { return $self->error("Failed to create Net::NNTP object"); } my $login = $self->nntp_auth_login || ''; my $passwd = $self->nntp_auth_passwd || ''; if ($login and $passwd) { unless ($client->authinfo($login, $passwd)) { return $self->error("Authinfo failed"); } } $self->nntp_client($client); 1; } sub _next_nntp_article { my $self = shift; my $client; $client = $self->nntp_client; unless (defined $client) { unless ($self->nntp_connect) { return $self->error("Failed to establish NNTP connection: " . $self->error); } $client = $self->nntp_client; unless ($client->group($self->name)) { return $self->error("Invalid group name: `" . $self->name . "'"); } $self->{'news_scan_article_list'} = $client->listgroup; } $self->error(0); # retry if we need to skip cancelled articles while (@{$self->{'news_scan_article_list'}}) { my $article = shift @{$self->{'news_scan_article_list'}}; my $fh = IO::File->new_tmpfile; unless (defined $fh) { return $self->error("Could not open temporary file: $!\n"); } my $lines = $client->article($article); next unless ref $lines; print $fh @$lines; $fh->seek(0, SEEK_SET); return $fh; } } sub _next_spool_article { my $self = shift; my $spool = $self->spool; unless (defined $self->{'news_scan_article_list'}) { unless (defined $spool) { return $self->error("News spool directory unknown"); } unless (opendir DIR, $spool) { return $self->error("Failed opendir $spool: $!"); } $self->{'news_scan_article_list'} = [ grep { -f "$spool/$_" && -s _ } readdir DIR ]; } $self->error(0); my $article = shift @{ $self->{'news_scan_article_list'} }; return undef unless defined $article; my $fh = new IO::File "< $spool/$article"; unless (defined $fh) { return $self->error("Failed open $spool/$article: $!"); } $fh; } sub next_article { my $self = shift; my $how = $self->from; unless (defined $how) { return $self->error("No news retrieval method specified!"); } $self->error(0); if ($how eq 'nntp') { return $self->_next_nntp_article; } elsif ($how eq 'spool') { return $self->_next_spool_article; } else { return $self->error("Unknown news source `$how'"); } } sub scan { my $self = shift; my $from; my $fh; my $article; unless (defined $self->name) { return $self->error("$self has no idea what its name is"); } while ($fh = $self->next_article) { $article = News::Scan::Article->new($fh, Modify => 0, $self); if (defined $article and not $self->excluded($article->author)) { $self->add_article($article); } } if ($self->error) { return undef; } $self->error(0); 1; } sub collect { my $self = shift; my $group; my $spool; $group = $self->name; unless (defined $group) { return $self->error("$self has no idea what group it is"); } $spool = $self->spool; unless (defined $spool) { return $self->error("$self does not know where its spool is"); } unless (-d $spool and -w _) { return $self->error("`$spool' not a directory or writable"); } unless ($self->nntp_connect) { return $self->error("Failed to create Net::NNTP object: " . $self->error); } my $client = $self->nntp_client; unless ($client->group($group)) { return $self->error("Invalid group name: `$group'"); } local $_; my %seen; if (open SEEN, "$spool/.seen") { while (<SEEN>) { chomp; $seen{$_} = 1; } close SEEN; } for (grep { !-f "$spool/$_" && !$seen{$_} } @{ $client->listgroup }) { my $art = $client->article($_); unless ($art) { my $msg = $client->message; warn "$0: $group:$_: $msg\n"; next; } unless (open ART, ">$spool/$_") { return $self->error("Failed to save article"); } print ART @$art; close ART; } $self->error(0); 1; } sub error { my $self = shift; if (@_) { $self->{'news_scan_error'} = shift; return undef; } else { return $self->{'news_scan_error'}; } } sub add_article { my $self = shift; my $article = shift; return unless (defined $article and ref $article); $self->articles($self->articles + 1); $self->volume($self->volume + $article->size); $self->header_volume($self->header_volume + $article->header_size); $self->header_lines($self->header_lines + $article->header_lines); $self->body_volume($self->body_volume + $article->body_size); $self->body_lines($self->body_lines + $article->body_lines); $self->orig_volume($self->orig_volume + $article->orig_size); $self->orig_lines($self->orig_lines + $article->orig_lines); if (my $sig_size = $article->sig_size) { $self->signatures($self->signatures + 1); $self->sig_volume($self->sig_volume + $sig_size); $self->sig_lines($self->sig_lines + $article->sig_lines); } $self->add_poster($article); $self->add_crossposts($article); $self->add_to_thread($article); $self->error(0); } ## poster bookkeeping stuff sub add_poster { my $self = shift; my $art = shift; $self->error(0); my $posters = $self->{'news_scan_posters'}; my $poster; if (exists $posters->{lc $art->author->address}) { $poster = $posters->{lc $art->author->address}; } else { $posters->{lc $art->author->address} = new News::Scan::Poster $art; return; } $poster->message_ids($art->message_id); $poster->volume($poster->volume + $art->size); $poster->articles($poster->articles + 1); $poster->posted_to($art); $poster->header_volume($poster->header_volume + $art->header_size); $poster->header_lines($poster->header_lines + $art->header_lines); $poster->body_volume($poster->body_volume + $art->body_size); $poster->body_lines($poster->body_lines + $art->body_lines); $poster->orig_volume($poster->orig_volume + $art->orig_size); $poster->orig_lines($poster->orig_lines + $art->orig_lines); $poster->sig_volume($poster->sig_volume + $art->sig_size); $poster->sig_lines($poster->sig_lines + $art->sig_lines); } sub posters { my %posters = %{ $_[0]->{'news_scan_posters'} }; \%posters; } ## crossposts bookkeeping stuff sub add_crossposts { my $self = shift; my $art = shift; my %uniq; local $_; for ($art->newsgroups) { $uniq{lc $_}++; } delete $uniq{lc $self->name}; for (keys %uniq) { $self->{'news_scan_xposts'}{$_}++; } $self->error(0); } sub crossposts { my %xposts = %{ $_[0]->{'news_scan_xposts'} }; \%xposts; } ## thread bookkeeping stuff sub add_to_thread { my $self = shift; my $art = shift; my $threads = $self->{'news_scan_threads'}; my $thread; $self->error(0); ## find the subject my $subj = $art->subject; $subj =~ s/ ^Re ## leading Re (?:\[.*?\])? ## possible nonstandard crap :\s* ## trailing : and optional whitespace //ix; if (exists $threads->{$subj}) { $thread = $threads->{$subj}; } else { $threads->{$subj} = new News::Scan::Thread $art, $subj; return; } $thread->volume($thread->volume + $art->size); $thread->articles($thread->articles + 1); $thread->header_volume($thread->header_volume + $art->header_size); $thread->header_lines($thread->header_lines + $art->header_lines); $thread->body_volume($thread->body_volume + $art->body_size); $thread->body_lines($thread->body_lines + $art->body_lines); $thread->orig_volume($thread->orig_volume + $art->orig_size); $thread->orig_lines($thread->orig_lines + $art->orig_lines); $thread->sig_volume($thread->sig_volume + $art->sig_size); $thread->sig_lines($thread->sig_lines + $art->sig_lines); } sub threads { my %threads = %{ $_[0]->{'news_scan_threads'} }; \%threads; } sub DESTROY {} 1; __END__