Bump version to 3.5.2

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -22,6 +22,17 @@ ambiguous situations.
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## 3.5.2 - 2024-04-14
+
+### Fixed
+- Crawling of personal desktop with ILIAS 8
+- Crawling of empty personal desktops
+
+## 3.5.1 - 2024-04-09
+
+### Added
+- Support for ILIAS 8
+
 ### Fixed
 - Video name deduplication
 

CONFIG.md

@@ -92,9 +92,6 @@ common to all crawlers:
   load for the crawl target. (Default: `0.0`)
 - `windows_paths`: Whether PFERD should find alternative names for paths that
   are invalid on Windows. (Default: `yes` on Windows, `no` otherwise)
-- `aliases`: List of strings that are considered as an alias when invoking with
-  the `--crawler` or `-C` flag. If there is more than one crawl section with
-  the same aliases all are selected. Thereby, you can group different crawlers.
 
 Some crawlers may also require credentials for authentication. To configure how
 the crawler obtains its credentials, the `auth` option is used. It is set to the
@@ -109,7 +106,6 @@ username = foo
 password = bar
 
 [crawl:something]
-aliases = [sth, some]
 type = some-complex-crawler
 auth = auth:example
 on_conflict = no-delete

PFERD/crawl/ilias/kit_ilias_html.py

@@ -95,13 +95,9 @@ class IliasPage:
 
     @staticmethod
     def is_root_page(soup: BeautifulSoup) -> bool:
-        permalink = soup.find(id="current_perma_link")
-        if permalink is None:
+        if permalink := IliasPage.get_soup_permalink(soup):
+            return "goto.php?target=root_" in permalink
         return False
-        value = permalink.attrs.get("value")
-        if value is None:
-            return False
-        return "goto.php?target=root_" in value
 
     def get_child_elements(self) -> List[IliasPageElement]:
         """
@@ -279,16 +275,14 @@ class IliasPage:
         return self._soup.find("a", attrs={"href": lambda x: x and "block_type=pditems" in x})
 
     def _is_content_page(self) -> bool:
-        link = self._soup.find(id="current_perma_link")
-        if not link:
+        if link := self.get_permalink():
+            return "target=copa_" in link
         return False
-        return "target=copa_" in link.get("value")
 
     def _is_learning_module_page(self) -> bool:
-        link = self._soup.find(id="current_perma_link")
-        if not link:
+        if link := self.get_permalink():
+            return "target=pg_" in link
         return False
-        return "target=pg_" in link.get("value")
 
     def _contains_collapsed_future_meetings(self) -> bool:
         return self._uncollapse_future_meetings_url() is not None
@@ -384,6 +378,10 @@ class IliasPage:
             name = _sanitize_path_name(link.text.strip())
             url = self._abs_url_from_link(link)
 
+            if "cmd=manage" in url and "cmdClass=ilPDSelectedItemsBlockGUI" in url:
+                # Configure button/link does not have anything interesting
+                continue
+
             type = self._find_type_from_link(name, link, url)
             if not type:
                 _unexpected_html_warning()
@@ -513,8 +511,8 @@ class IliasPage:
             modification_string = link.parent.parent.parent.select_one(
                 f"td.std:nth-child({index})"
             ).getText().strip()
-            if re.search(r"\d+\.\d+.\d+ - \d+:\d+", modification_string):
-                modification_time = datetime.strptime(modification_string, "%d.%m.%Y - %H:%M")
+            if match := re.search(r"\d+\.\d+.\d+ \d+:\d+", modification_string):
+                modification_time = datetime.strptime(match.group(0), "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M")
                 break
 
         if modification_time is None:
@@ -613,7 +611,7 @@ class IliasPage:
             file_listings: List[Tag] = container.findAll(
                 name="a",
                 # download links contain the given command class
-                attrs={"href": lambda x: x and "cmdClass=ilexsubmissionfilegui" in x}
+                attrs={"href": lambda x: x and "cmdclass=ilexsubmissionfilegui" in x.lower()}
             )
 
             # Add each listing as a new
@@ -1080,6 +1078,14 @@ class IliasPage:
         if soup.find("a", attrs={"href": lambda x: x and "block_type=pditems" in x}):
             return True
 
+        # Empty personal desktop has zero (0) markers. Match on the text...
+        if alert := soup.select_one(".alert-info"):
+            text = alert.getText().lower()
+            if "you have not yet selected any favourites" in text:
+                return True
+            if "sie haben aktuell noch keine favoriten ausgewählt" in text:
+                return True
+
         # Video listing embeds do not have complete ILIAS html. Try to match them by
         # their video listing table
         video_table = soup.find(
@@ -1095,6 +1101,9 @@ class IliasPage:
             return True
         return False
 
+    def get_permalink(self) -> Optional[str]:
+        return IliasPage.get_soup_permalink(self._soup)
+
     def _abs_url_from_link(self, link_tag: Tag) -> str:
         """
         Create an absolute url from an <a> tag.
@@ -1107,6 +1116,13 @@ class IliasPage:
         """
         return urljoin(self._page_url, relative_url)
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_soup_permalink(soup: BeautifulSoup) -> Optional[str]:
+        perma_link_element: Tag = soup.select_one(".il-footer-permanent-url > a")
+        if not perma_link_element or not perma_link_element.get("href"):
+            return None
+        return perma_link_element.get("href")
+
 
 def _unexpected_html_warning() -> None:
     log.warn("Encountered unexpected HTML structure, ignoring element.")

PFERD/crawl/ilias/kit_ilias_web_crawler.py

@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ def _iorepeat(attempts: int, name: str, failure_is_error: bool = False) -> Calla
             raise CrawlError("Impossible return in ilias _iorepeat")
 
         return wrapper  # type: ignore
+
     return decorator
 
 
@@ -227,7 +228,7 @@ instance's greatest bottleneck.
         await self._crawl_url(root_url, expected_id=course_id)
 
     async def _crawl_desktop(self) -> None:
-        appendix = r"ILIAS\PersonalDesktop\PDMainBarProvider|mm_pd_sel_items"
+        appendix = r"ILIAS\Repository\Provider\RepositoryMainBarProvider|mm_pd_sel_items"
         appendix = appendix.encode("ASCII").hex()
         await self._crawl_url(self._base_url + "/gs_content.php?item=" + appendix)
 
@@ -253,8 +254,8 @@ instance's greatest bottleneck.
                     soup = await self._get_page(next_stage_url, root_page_allowed=True)
 
                     if current_parent is None and expected_id is not None:
-                        perma_link_element: Tag = soup.find(id="current_perma_link")
-                        if not perma_link_element or "crs_" not in perma_link_element.get("value"):
+                        perma_link = IliasPage.get_soup_permalink(soup)
+                        if not perma_link or "crs_" not in perma_link:
                             raise CrawlError("Invalid course id? Didn't find anything looking like a course")
 
                     log.explain_topic(f"Parsing HTML page for {fmt_path(cl.path)}")
@@ -674,12 +675,28 @@ instance's greatest bottleneck.
 
     async def _stream_from_url(self, url: str, sink: FileSink, bar: ProgressBar, is_video: bool) -> None:
         async def try_stream() -> bool:
-            async with self.session.get(url, allow_redirects=is_video) as resp:
+            next_url = url
+
+            # Normal files redirect to the magazine if we are not authenticated. As files could be HTML,
+            # we can not match on the content type here. Instead, we disallow redirects and inspect the
+            # new location. If we are redirected anywhere but the ILIAS 8 "sendfile" command, we assume
+            # our authentication expired.
             if not is_video:
-                    # Redirect means we weren't authenticated
+                async with self.session.get(url, allow_redirects=False) as resp:
+                    # Redirect to anything except a "sendfile" means we weren't authenticated
                     if hdrs.LOCATION in resp.headers:
+                        if "&cmd=sendfile" not in resp.headers[hdrs.LOCATION]:
                             return False
-                # we wanted a video but got HTML
+                        # Directly follow the redirect to not make a second, unnecessary request
+                        next_url = resp.headers[hdrs.LOCATION]
+
+            # Let's try this again and follow redirects
+            return await fetch_follow_redirects(next_url)
+
+        async def fetch_follow_redirects(file_url: str) -> bool:
+            async with self.session.get(file_url) as resp:
+                # We wanted a video but got HTML => Forbidden, auth expired. Logging in won't really
+                # solve that depending on the setup, but it is better than nothing.
                 if is_video and "html" in resp.content_type:
                     return False
 

PFERD/pferd.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Set
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional
 
 from rich.markup import escape
 
@@ -43,24 +43,16 @@ class Pferd:
 
         crawl_sections = [name for name, _ in config.crawl_sections()]
 
-        crawlers_to_run = set()  # With crawl: prefix
+        crawlers_to_run = []  # With crawl: prefix
         unknown_names = []  # Without crawl: prefix
 
         for name in cli_crawlers:
             section_name = f"crawl:{name}"
             if section_name in crawl_sections:
                 log.explain(f"Crawler section named {section_name!r} exists")
-                crawlers_to_run.add(section_name)
-            # interprete name as alias of a crawler
-            alias_names = self._find_crawlers_by_alias(name, config)
-            if alias_names:
-                crawlers_to_run.update(alias_names)
-                log.explain_topic(f"Crawler alias {name!r} found corresponding crawler sections:")
-                for alias_name in alias_names:
-                    log.explain(f"Crawler section named {alias_name!r} with alias {name!r} exists")
-
-            if not section_name in crawl_sections and not alias_names:
-                log.explain(f"There's neither a crawler section named {section_name!r} nor does a crawler with alias {name!r} exist.")
+                crawlers_to_run.append(section_name)
+            else:
+                log.explain(f"There's no crawler section named {section_name!r}")
                 unknown_names.append(name)
 
         if unknown_names:
@@ -73,14 +65,6 @@ class Pferd:
 
         return crawlers_to_run
 
-    def _find_crawlers_by_alias(self, alias: str, config: Config) -> Set[str]:
-        alias_names = set()
-        for (section_name, section) in config.crawl_sections():
-            section_aliases = section.get("aliases", [])
-            if alias in section_aliases:
-                alias_names.add(section_name)
-        return alias_names
-
     def _find_crawlers_to_run(
             self,
             config: Config,

PFERD/version.py

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 NAME = "PFERD"
-VERSION = "3.5.0"
+VERSION = "3.5.2"

flake.lock

@@ -2,16 +2,16 @@
   "nodes": {
     "nixpkgs": {
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1694499547,
-        "narHash": "sha256-R7xMz1Iia6JthWRHDn36s/E248WB1/je62ovC/dUVKI=",
+        "lastModified": 1708979614,
+        "narHash": "sha256-FWLWmYojIg6TeqxSnHkKpHu5SGnFP5um1uUjH+wRV6g=",
         "owner": "NixOS",
         "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "e5f018cf150e29aac26c61dac0790ea023c46b24",
+        "rev": "b7ee09cf5614b02d289cd86fcfa6f24d4e078c2a",
         "type": "github"
       },
       "original": {
         "owner": "NixOS",
-        "ref": "nixos-23.05",
+        "ref": "nixos-23.11",
         "repo": "nixpkgs",
         "type": "github"
       }

flake.nix

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   description = "Tool for downloading course-related files from ILIAS";
 
   inputs = {
-    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-23.05";
+    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-23.11";
   };
 
   outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: