#! /usr/bin/env python ####################################################################### # Newslist $Revision$ # # Syntax: # newslist [ -a ] # # This is a program to create a directory full of HTML pages # which between them contain links to all the newsgroups available # on your server. # # The -a option causes a complete list of all groups to be read from # the server rather than just the ones which have appeared since last # execution. This recreates the local list from scratch. Use this on # the first invocation of the program, and from time to time thereafter. # When new groups are first created they may appear on your server as # empty groups. By default, empty groups are ignored by the -a option. # However, these new groups will not be created again, and so will not # appear in the server's list of 'new groups' at a later date. Hence it # won't appear until you do a '-a' after some articles have appeared. # # I should really keep a list of ignored empty groups and re-check them # for articles on every run, but I haven't got around to it yet. # # This assumes an NNTP news feed. # # Feel free to copy, distribute and modify this code for # non-commercial use. If you make any useful modifications, let me # know! # # (c) Quentin Stafford-Fraser 1994 # fraser@europarc.xerox.com qs101@cl.cam.ac.uk # # ####################################################################### import sys, nntplib, marshal, time, os ####################################################################### # Check these variables before running! # # Top directory. # Filenames which don't start with / are taken as being relative to this. topdir = os.path.expanduser('~/newspage') # The name of your NNTP host # eg. # newshost = 'nntp-serv.cl.cam.ac.uk' # or use following to get the name from the NNTPSERVER environment # variable: # newshost = os.environ['NNTPSERVER'] newshost = 'news.example.com' # The filename for a local cache of the newsgroup list treefile = 'grouptree' # The filename for descriptions of newsgroups # I found a suitable one at ftp.uu.net in /uunet-info/newgroups.gz # You can set this to '' if you don't wish to use one. descfile = 'newsgroups' # The directory in which HTML pages should be created # eg. # pagedir = '/usr/local/lib/html/newspage' # pagedir = 'pages' pagedir = topdir # The html prefix which will refer to this directory # eg. # httppref = '/newspage/', # or leave blank for relative links between pages: (Recommended) # httppref = '' httppref = '' # The name of the 'root' news page in this directory. # A .html suffix will be added. rootpage = 'root' # Set skipempty to 0 if you wish to see links to empty groups as well. # Only affects the -a option. skipempty = 1 # pagelinkicon can contain html to put an icon after links to # further pages. This helps to make important links stand out. # Set to '' if not wanted, or '...' is quite a good one. pagelinkicon = '... ' # --------------------------------------------------------------------- # Less important personal preferences: # Sublistsize controls the maximum number of items the will appear as # an indented sub-list before the whole thing is moved onto a different # page. The smaller this is, the more pages you will have, but the # shorter each will be. sublistsize = 4 # That should be all. # ####################################################################### for dir in os.curdir, os.environ['HOME']: rcfile = os.path.join(dir, '.newslistrc.py') if os.path.exists(rcfile): print rcfile execfile(rcfile) break from nntplib import NNTP from stat import * rcsrev = '$Revision$' rcsrev = ' '.join(filter(lambda s: '$' not in s, rcsrev.split())) desc = {} # Make (possibly) relative filenames into absolute ones treefile = os.path.join(topdir,treefile) descfile = os.path.join(topdir,descfile) page = os.path.join(topdir,pagedir) # First the bits for creating trees --------------------------- # Addtotree creates/augments a tree from a list of group names def addtotree(tree, groups): print 'Updating tree...' for i in groups: parts = i.split('.') makeleaf(tree, parts) # Makeleaf makes a leaf and the branch leading to it if necessary def makeleaf(tree,path): j = path[0] l = len(path) if not tree.has_key(j): tree[j] = {} if l == 1: tree[j]['.'] = '.' if l > 1: makeleaf(tree[j],path[1:]) # Then the bits for outputting trees as pages ---------------- # Createpage creates an HTML file named .html containing links # to those groups beginning with . def createpage(root, tree, p): filename = os.path.join(pagedir, root+'.html') if root == rootpage: detail = '' else: detail = ' under ' + root with open(filename, 'w') as f: # f.write('Content-Type: text/html\n') f.write('\n\n') f.write('Newsgroups available%s\n' % detail) f.write('\n\n') f.write('

Newsgroups available%s

\n' % detail) f.write('Back to top level

\n' % (httppref, rootpage)) printtree(f, tree, 0, p) f.write('\n

') f.write("This page automatically created by 'newslist' v. %s." % rcsrev) f.write(time.ctime(time.time()) + '\n') f.write('\n\n') # Printtree prints the groups as a bulleted list. Groups with # more than subgroups will be put on a separate page. # Other sets of subgroups are just indented. def printtree(f, tree, indent, p): l = len(tree) if l > sublistsize and indent > 0: # Create a new page and a link to it f.write('

  • ' % (httppref, p[1:])) f.write(p[1:] + '.*') f.write('%s\n' % pagelinkicon) createpage(p[1:], tree, p) return kl = tree.keys() if l > 1: kl.sort() if indent > 0: # Create a sub-list f.write('
  • %s\n
      ' % p[1:]) else: # Create a main list f.write('
        ') indent = indent + 1 for i in kl: if i == '.': # Output a newsgroup f.write('
      • %s ' % (p[1:], p[1:])) if p[1:] in desc: f.write(' %s\n' % desc[p[1:]]) else: f.write('\n') else: # Output a hierarchy printtree(f, tree[i], indent, p+'.'+i) if l > 1: f.write('\n
      ') # Reading descriptions file --------------------------------------- # This returns a dict mapping group name to its description def readdesc(descfile): global desc desc = {} if descfile == '': return try: with open(descfile, 'r') as d: print 'Reading descriptions...' for l in d: bits = l.split() try: grp = bits[0] dsc = ' '.join(bits[1:]) if len(dsc) > 1: desc[grp] = dsc except IndexError: pass except IOError: print 'Failed to open description file ' + descfile return # Check that ouput directory exists, ------------------------------ # and offer to create it if not def checkopdir(pagedir): if not os.path.isdir(pagedir): print 'Directory %s does not exist.' % pagedir print 'Shall I create it for you? (y/n)' if sys.stdin.readline()[0] == 'y': try: os.mkdir(pagedir, 0777) except: print 'Sorry - failed!' sys.exit(1) else: print 'OK. Exiting.' sys.exit(1) # Read and write current local tree ---------------------------------- def readlocallist(treefile): print 'Reading current local group list...' tree = {} try: treetime = time.localtime(os.stat(treefile)[ST_MTIME]) except: print '\n*** Failed to open local group cache '+treefile print 'If this is the first time you have run newslist, then' print 'use the -a option to create it.' sys.exit(1) treedate = '%02d%02d%02d' % (treetime[0] % 100, treetime[1], treetime[2]) try: with open(treefile, 'rb') as dump: tree = marshal.load(dump) except IOError: print 'Cannot open local group list ' + treefile return (tree, treedate) def writelocallist(treefile, tree): try: with open(treefile, 'wb') as dump: groups = marshal.dump(tree, dump) print 'Saved list to %s\n' % treefile except: print 'Sorry - failed to write to local group cache', treefile print 'Does it (or its directory) have the correct permissions?' sys.exit(1) # Return list of all groups on server ----------------------------- def getallgroups(server): print 'Getting list of all groups...' treedate = '010101' info = server.list()[1] groups = [] print 'Processing...' if skipempty: print '\nIgnoring following empty groups:' for i in info: grpname = i[0].split()[0] if skipempty and int(i[1]) < int(i[2]): print grpname + ' ', else: groups.append(grpname) print '\n' if skipempty: print '(End of empty groups)' return groups # Return list of new groups on server ----------------------------- def getnewgroups(server, treedate): print 'Getting list of new groups since start of %s...' % treedate, info = server.newgroups(treedate, '000001')[1] print 'got %d.' % len(info) print 'Processing...', groups = [] for i in info: grpname = i.split()[0] groups.append(grpname) print 'Done' return groups # Now the main program -------------------------------------------- def main(): tree = {} # Check that the output directory exists checkopdir(pagedir) try: print 'Connecting to %s...' % newshost if sys.version[0] == '0': s = NNTP.init(newshost) else: s = NNTP(newshost) connected = True except (nntplib.error_temp, nntplib.error_perm), x: print 'Error connecting to host:', x print 'I\'ll try to use just the local list.' connected = False # If -a is specified, read the full list of groups from server if connected and len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == '-a': groups = getallgroups(s) # Otherwise just read the local file and then add # groups created since local file last modified. else: (tree, treedate) = readlocallist(treefile) if connected: groups = getnewgroups(s, treedate) if connected: addtotree(tree, groups) writelocallist(treefile,tree) # Read group descriptions readdesc(descfile) print 'Creating pages...' createpage(rootpage, tree, '') print 'Done' if __name__ == "__main__": main() # That's all folks ######################################################################