Bump version to 3.5.2

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -22,6 +22,20 @@ 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
+
 ## 3.5.0 - 2023-09-13
 
 ### Added

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

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ TargetType = Union[str, int]
 class IliasElementType(Enum):
     EXERCISE = "exercise"
     EXERCISE_FILES = "exercise_files"  # own submitted files
-    TEST = "test"                      # an online test. Will be ignored currently.
+    TEST = "test"  # an online test. Will be ignored currently.
     FILE = "file"
     FOLDER = "folder"
     FORUM = "forum"
@@ -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:
-            return False
-        value = permalink.attrs.get("value")
-        if value is None:
-            return False
-        return "goto.php?target=root_" in value
+        if permalink := IliasPage.get_soup_permalink(soup):
+            return "goto.php?target=root_" in permalink
+        return False
 
     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:
-            return False
-        return "target=copa_" in link.get("value")
+        if link := self.get_permalink():
+            return "target=copa_" in link
+        return False
 
     def _is_learning_module_page(self) -> bool:
-        link = self._soup.find(id="current_perma_link")
-        if not link:
-            return False
-        return "target=pg_" in link.get("value")
+        if link := self.get_permalink():
+            return "target=pg_" in link
+        return False
 
     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
@@ -917,9 +915,9 @@ class IliasPage:
 
     @staticmethod
     def _find_type_from_link(
-            element_name: str,
-            link_element: Tag,
-            url: str
+        element_name: str,
+        link_element: Tag,
+        url: str
     ) -> Optional[IliasElementType]:
         """
         Decides which sub crawler to use for a given top level element.
@@ -1067,6 +1065,45 @@ class IliasPage:
         rest_of_name = split_delimiter.join(meeting_name.split(split_delimiter)[1:])
         return datetime.strftime(date_portion, "%Y-%m-%d") + split_delimiter + rest_of_name
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def is_logged_in(soup: BeautifulSoup) -> bool:
+        # Normal ILIAS pages
+        mainbar: Optional[Tag] = soup.find(class_="il-maincontrols-metabar")
+        if mainbar is not None:
+            login_button = mainbar.find(attrs={"href": lambda x: x and "login.php" in x})
+            shib_login = soup.find(id="button_shib_login")
+            return not login_button and not shib_login
+
+        # Personal Desktop
+        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(
+            recursive=True,
+            name="table",
+            attrs={"id": lambda x: x is not None and x.startswith("tbl_xoct")}
+        )
+        if video_table is not None:
+            return True
+        # The individual video player wrapper page has nothing of the above.
+        # Match it by its playerContainer.
+        if soup.select_one("#playerContainer") is not None:
+            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.
@@ -1079,6 +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.")
@@ -1102,7 +1146,7 @@ def demangle_date(date_str: str, fail_silently: bool = False) -> Optional[dateti
 
         date_str = re.sub("Gestern|Yesterday", _format_date_english(_yesterday()), date_str, re.I)
         date_str = re.sub("Heute|Today", _format_date_english(date.today()), date_str, re.I)
-        date_str = re.sub("Morgen|Tomorrow",  _format_date_english(_tomorrow()), date_str, re.I)
+        date_str = re.sub("Morgen|Tomorrow", _format_date_english(_tomorrow()), date_str, re.I)
         date_str = date_str.strip()
         for german, english in zip(german_months, english_months):
             date_str = date_str.replace(german, english)

PFERD/crawl/ilias/kit_ilias_web_crawler.py

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ class KitIliasWebCrawlerSection(HttpCrawlerSection):
         return self.s.getboolean("forums", fallback=False)
 
 
-_DIRECTORY_PAGES: Set[IliasElementType] = set([
+_DIRECTORY_PAGES: Set[IliasElementType] = {
     IliasElementType.EXERCISE,
     IliasElementType.EXERCISE_FILES,
     IliasElementType.FOLDER,
@@ -90,16 +90,16 @@ _DIRECTORY_PAGES: Set[IliasElementType] = set([
     IliasElementType.MEDIACAST_VIDEO_FOLDER,
     IliasElementType.OPENCAST_VIDEO_FOLDER,
     IliasElementType.OPENCAST_VIDEO_FOLDER_MAYBE_PAGINATED,
-])
+}
 
-_VIDEO_ELEMENTS: Set[IliasElementType] = set([
+_VIDEO_ELEMENTS: Set[IliasElementType] = {
     IliasElementType.MEDIACAST_VIDEO_FOLDER,
     IliasElementType.MEDIACAST_VIDEO,
     IliasElementType.OPENCAST_VIDEO,
     IliasElementType.OPENCAST_VIDEO_PLAYER,
     IliasElementType.OPENCAST_VIDEO_FOLDER,
     IliasElementType.OPENCAST_VIDEO_FOLDER_MAYBE_PAGINATED,
-])
+}
 
 
 def _iorepeat(attempts: int, name: str, failure_is_error: bool = False) -> Callable[[AWrapped], AWrapped]:
@@ -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
 
 
@@ -140,6 +141,10 @@ def _wrap_io_in_warning(name: str) -> Callable[[AWrapped], AWrapped]:
     return _iorepeat(1, name)
 
 
+def _get_video_cache_key(element: IliasPageElement) -> str:
+    return f"ilias-video-cache-{element.id()}"
+
+
 # Crawler control flow:
 #
 #     crawl_desktop -+
@@ -173,11 +178,11 @@ def _wrap_io_in_warning(name: str) -> Callable[[AWrapped], AWrapped]:
 
 class KitIliasWebCrawler(HttpCrawler):
     def __init__(
-            self,
-            name: str,
-            section: KitIliasWebCrawlerSection,
-            config: Config,
-            authenticators: Dict[str, Authenticator]
+        self,
+        name: str,
+        section: KitIliasWebCrawlerSection,
+        config: Config,
+        authenticators: Dict[str, Authenticator]
     ):
         # Setting a main authenticator for cookie sharing
         auth = section.auth(authenticators)
@@ -223,7 +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)
 
@@ -249,8 +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)}")
@@ -547,8 +552,8 @@ instance's greatest bottleneck.
         # Copy old mapping as it is likely still relevant
         if self.prev_report:
             self.report.add_custom_value(
-                str(element_path),
-                self.prev_report.get_custom_value(str(element_path))
+                _get_video_cache_key(element),
+                self.prev_report.get_custom_value(_get_video_cache_key(element))
             )
 
         # A video might contain other videos, so let's "crawl" the video first
@@ -558,58 +563,69 @@ instance's greatest bottleneck.
         # to ensure backwards compatibility.
         maybe_dl = await self.download(element_path, mtime=element.mtime, redownload=Redownload.ALWAYS)
 
-        # If we do not want to crawl it (user filter) or we have every file
-        # from the cached mapping already, we can ignore this and bail
-        if not maybe_dl or self._all_opencast_videos_locally_present(element_path):
-            # Mark all existing cideos as known so they do not get deleted
-            # during dleanup. We "downloaded" them, just without actually making
-            # a network request as we assumed they did not change.
-            for video in self._previous_contained_opencast_videos(element_path):
-                await self.download(video)
+        # If we do not want to crawl it (user filter), we can move on
+        if not maybe_dl:
+            return None
+
+        # If we have every file from the cached mapping already, we can ignore this and bail
+        if self._all_opencast_videos_locally_present(element, maybe_dl.path):
+            # Mark all existing videos as known to ensure they do not get deleted during cleanup.
+            # We "downloaded" them, just without actually making a network request as we assumed
+            # they did not change.
+            contained = self._previous_contained_opencast_videos(element, maybe_dl.path)
+            if len(contained) > 1:
+                # Only do this if we threw away the original dl token,
+                # to not download single-stream videos twice
+                for video in contained:
+                    await self.download(video)
 
             return None
 
-        return self._download_opencast_video(element_path, element, maybe_dl)
+        return self._download_opencast_video(element, maybe_dl)
 
-    def _previous_contained_opencast_videos(self, video_path: PurePath) -> List[PurePath]:
+    def _previous_contained_opencast_videos(
+        self, element: IliasPageElement, element_path: PurePath
+    ) -> List[PurePath]:
         if not self.prev_report:
             return []
-        custom_value = self.prev_report.get_custom_value(str(video_path))
+        custom_value = self.prev_report.get_custom_value(_get_video_cache_key(element))
         if not custom_value:
             return []
-        names = cast(List[str], custom_value)
-        folder = video_path.parent
-        return [PurePath(folder, name) for name in names]
+        cached_value = cast(dict[str, Any], custom_value)
+        if "known_paths" not in cached_value or "own_path" not in cached_value:
+            log.explain(f"'known_paths' or 'own_path' missing from cached value: {cached_value}")
+            return []
+        transformed_own_path = self._transformer.transform(element_path)
+        if cached_value["own_path"] != str(transformed_own_path):
+            log.explain(
+                f"own_path '{transformed_own_path}' does not match cached value: '{cached_value['own_path']}"
+            )
+            return []
+        return [PurePath(name) for name in cached_value["known_paths"]]
 
-    def _all_opencast_videos_locally_present(self, video_path: PurePath) -> bool:
-        if contained_videos := self._previous_contained_opencast_videos(video_path):
-            log.explain_topic(f"Checking local cache for video {video_path.name}")
-            all_found_locally = True
-            for video in contained_videos:
-                transformed_path = self._to_local_opencast_video_path(video)
-                if transformed_path:
-                    exists_locally = self._output_dir.resolve(transformed_path).exists()
-                    all_found_locally = all_found_locally and exists_locally
-            if all_found_locally:
-                log.explain("Found all videos locally, skipping enumeration request")
+    def _all_opencast_videos_locally_present(self, element: IliasPageElement, element_path: PurePath) -> bool:
+        log.explain_topic(f"Checking local cache for video {fmt_path(element_path)}")
+        if contained_videos := self._previous_contained_opencast_videos(element, element_path):
+            log.explain(
+                f"The following contained videos are known: {','.join(map(fmt_path, contained_videos))}"
+            )
+            if all(self._output_dir.resolve(path).exists() for path in contained_videos):
+                log.explain("Found all known videos locally, skipping enumeration request")
                 return True
             log.explain("Missing at least one video, continuing with requests!")
+        else:
+            log.explain("No local cache present")
         return False
 
-    def _to_local_opencast_video_path(self, path: PurePath) -> Optional[PurePath]:
-        if transformed := self._transformer.transform(path):
-            return self._deduplicator.fixup_path(transformed)
-        return None
-
     @anoncritical
     @_iorepeat(3, "downloading video")
-    async def _download_opencast_video(
-        self,
-        original_path: PurePath,
-        element: IliasPageElement,
-        dl: DownloadToken
-    ) -> None:
-        stream_elements: List[IliasPageElement] = []
+    async def _download_opencast_video(self, element: IliasPageElement, dl: DownloadToken) -> None:
+        def add_to_report(paths: list[str]) -> None:
+            self.report.add_custom_value(
+                _get_video_cache_key(element),
+                {"known_paths": paths, "own_path": str(self._transformer.transform(dl.path))}
+            )
+
         async with dl as (bar, sink):
             page = IliasPage(await self._get_page(element.url), element.url, element)
             stream_elements = page.get_child_elements()
@@ -620,32 +636,25 @@ instance's greatest bottleneck.
                 log.explain(f"Using single video mode for {element.name}")
                 stream_element = stream_elements[0]
 
-                transformed_path = self._to_local_opencast_video_path(original_path)
-                if not transformed_path:
-                    raise CrawlError(f"Download returned a path but transform did not for {original_path}")
-
                 # We do not have a local cache yet
-                if self._output_dir.resolve(transformed_path).exists():
-                    log.explain(f"Video for {element.name} existed locally")
-                else:
-                    await self._stream_from_url(stream_element.url, sink, bar, is_video=True)
-                self.report.add_custom_value(str(original_path), [original_path.name])
+                await self._stream_from_url(stream_element.url, sink, bar, is_video=True)
+                add_to_report([str(self._transformer.transform(dl.path))])
                 return
 
         contained_video_paths: List[str] = []
 
         for stream_element in stream_elements:
-            video_path = original_path.parent / stream_element.name
-            contained_video_paths.append(str(video_path))
+            video_path = dl.path.parent / stream_element.name
 
             maybe_dl = await self.download(video_path, mtime=element.mtime, redownload=Redownload.NEVER)
             if not maybe_dl:
                 continue
             async with maybe_dl as (bar, sink):
                 log.explain(f"Streaming video from real url {stream_element.url}")
+                contained_video_paths.append(str(self._transformer.transform(maybe_dl.path)))
                 await self._stream_from_url(stream_element.url, sink, bar, is_video=True)
 
-        self.report.add_custom_value(str(original_path), contained_video_paths)
+        add_to_report(contained_video_paths)
 
     async def _handle_file(
         self,
@@ -657,8 +666,8 @@ instance's greatest bottleneck.
             return None
         return self._download_file(element, maybe_dl)
 
-    @anoncritical
     @_iorepeat(3, "downloading file")
+    @anoncritical
     async def _download_file(self, element: IliasPageElement, dl: DownloadToken) -> None:
         assert dl  # The function is only reached when dl is not None
         async with dl as (bar, sink):
@@ -666,12 +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:
-                if not is_video:
-                    # Redirect means we weren't authenticated
+            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:
+                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:
-                        return False
-                # we wanted a video but got HTML
+                        if "&cmd=sendfile" not in resp.headers[hdrs.LOCATION]:
+                            return False
+                        # 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
 
@@ -728,7 +753,6 @@ instance's greatest bottleneck.
                 raise CrawlWarning("Failed to extract forum data")
             if download_data.empty:
                 log.explain("Forum had no threads")
-                elements = []
                 return
             html = await self._post_authenticated(download_data.url, download_data.form_data)
             elements = parse_ilias_forum_export(soupify(html))
@@ -894,7 +918,7 @@ instance's greatest bottleneck.
         auth_id = await self._current_auth_id()
         async with self.session.get(url) as request:
             soup = soupify(await request.read())
-            if self._is_logged_in(soup):
+            if IliasPage.is_logged_in(soup):
                 return self._verify_page(soup, url, root_page_allowed)
 
         # We weren't authenticated, so try to do that
@@ -903,11 +927,12 @@ instance's greatest bottleneck.
         # Retry once after authenticating. If this fails, we will die.
         async with self.session.get(url) as request:
             soup = soupify(await request.read())
-            if self._is_logged_in(soup):
+            if IliasPage.is_logged_in(soup):
                 return self._verify_page(soup, url, root_page_allowed)
         raise CrawlError(f"get_page failed even after authenticating on {url!r}")
 
-    def _verify_page(self, soup: BeautifulSoup, url: str, root_page_allowed: bool) -> BeautifulSoup:
+    @staticmethod
+    def _verify_page(soup: BeautifulSoup, url: str, root_page_allowed: bool) -> BeautifulSoup:
         if IliasPage.is_root_page(soup) and not root_page_allowed:
             raise CrawlError(
                 "Unexpectedly encountered ILIAS root page. "
@@ -961,38 +986,10 @@ instance's greatest bottleneck.
 
     # We repeat this as the login method in shibboleth doesn't handle I/O errors.
     # Shibboleth is quite reliable as well, the repeat is likely not critical here.
-    @ _iorepeat(3, "Login", failure_is_error=True)
+    @_iorepeat(3, "Login", failure_is_error=True)
     async def _authenticate(self) -> None:
         await self._shibboleth_login.login(self.session)
 
-    @ staticmethod
-    def _is_logged_in(soup: BeautifulSoup) -> bool:
-        # Normal ILIAS pages
-        mainbar: Optional[Tag] = soup.find(class_="il-maincontrols-metabar")
-        if mainbar is not None:
-            login_button = mainbar.find(attrs={"href": lambda x: x and "login.php" in x})
-            shib_login = soup.find(id="button_shib_login")
-            return not login_button and not shib_login
-
-        # Personal Desktop
-        if soup.find("a", attrs={"href": lambda x: x and "block_type=pditems" in x}):
-            return True
-
-        # Video listing embeds do not have complete ILIAS html. Try to match them by
-        # their video listing table
-        video_table = soup.find(
-            recursive=True,
-            name="table",
-            attrs={"id": lambda x: x is not None and x.startswith("tbl_xoct")}
-        )
-        if video_table is not None:
-            return True
-        # The individual video player wrapper page has nothing of the above.
-        # Match it by its playerContainer.
-        if soup.select_one("#playerContainer") is not None:
-            return True
-        return False
-
 
 class KitShibbolethLogin:
     """
@@ -1072,9 +1069,9 @@ class KitShibbolethLogin:
         await sess.post(url, data=data)
 
     async def _authenticate_tfa(
-            self,
-            session: aiohttp.ClientSession,
-            soup: BeautifulSoup
+        self,
+        session: aiohttp.ClientSession,
+        soup: BeautifulSoup
     ) -> BeautifulSoup:
         if not self._tfa_auth:
             self._tfa_auth = TfaAuthenticator("ilias-anon-tfa")
@@ -1139,7 +1136,7 @@ async def _shib_post(
         async with session.get(correct_url, allow_redirects=False) as response:
             location = response.headers.get("location")
             log.explain(f"Redirected to {location!r} with status {response.status}")
-            # If shib still still has a valid session, it will directly respond to the request
+            # If shib still has a valid session, it will directly respond to the request
             if location is None:
                 log.explain("Shib recognized us, returning its response directly")
                 return soupify(await response.read())

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 }: