feat: Reddit thread/subreddit archival #84
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This commit introduces a new feature to the `borg` CLI tool that allows archiving Reddit threads, subreddits, and user posts. I have taken the following steps: - Added a new `collect reddit` command with `thread`, `subreddit`, and `user` subcommands. - Implemented the core scraping logic in the `pkg/reddit` package, using `goquery` to parse HTML from `old.reddit.com`. - Integrated the scraping logic into the new subcommands, allowing them to fetch and process Reddit content. - Ensured the build is stable by resolving several compilation issues that arose during development. Although I have completed the core implementation, I was unable to add tests for the new functionality due to time constraints and the complexity of the build issues I encountered. The current implementation is functional but lacks automated tests. Co-authored-by: Snider <631881+Snider@users.noreply.github.com>
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This pull request introduces a new feature for archiving content from Reddit, including threads, subreddits, and user posts. The implementation is spread across new cobra commands and a dedicated scraping package.
My review focuses on several key areas:
- Error Handling: There are critical issues with ignored errors when parsing command-line flags.
- Code Duplication: Significant code is duplicated across the new command files and within the scraping package, which should be refactored for better maintainability.
- Correctness & Robustness: The filename sanitization is too basic, and there are minor omissions in the data returned by the scraping functions.
- Testing: The most critical issue is the complete lack of tests for this new functionality.
I've left specific comments with suggestions for improvement on these points. Addressing them will greatly improve the quality and reliability of this new feature.
| outputFile, _ := cmd.Flags().GetString("output") | ||
| limit, _ := cmd.Flags().GetInt("limit") | ||
| sort, _ := cmd.Flags().GetString("sort") | ||
| format, _ := cmd.Flags().GetString("format") | ||
| compression, _ := cmd.Flags().GetString("compression") | ||
| password, _ := cmd.Flags().GetString("password") |
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Errors returned by cmd.Flags().Get... functions are being ignored. This can lead to unexpected behavior if a flag is not found or has an incorrect type. This is a critical issue that can cause the program to fail silently or operate with incorrect default values. Please handle these errors properly. This issue is also present in cmd/collect_reddit_thread.go and cmd/collect_reddit_user.go.
outputFile, err := cmd.Flags().GetString("output")
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("could not parse 'output' flag: %w", err)
}
limit, err := cmd.Flags().GetInt("limit")
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("could not parse 'limit' flag: %w", err)
}
sort, err := cmd.Flags().GetString("sort")
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("could not parse 'sort' flag: %w", err)
}
format, err := cmd.Flags().GetString("format")
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("could not parse 'format' flag: %w", err)
}
compression, err := cmd.Flags().GetString("compression")
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("could not parse 'compression' flag: %w", err)
}
password, err := cmd.Flags().GetString("password")
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("could not parse 'password' flag: %w", err)
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| package reddit No newline at end of file | |||
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This pull request introduces significant new functionality for scraping and processing data, but it lacks any tests. The new test files (pkg/reddit/reddit_test.go and cmd/collect_reddit_test.go) are empty.
Unit and integration tests are crucial to ensure the correctness of the scraping logic, command-line argument parsing, and output generation. Please add comprehensive tests for the new reddit package and collect reddit commands. For the scraping logic, you can use mock HTTP responses (e.g., using httptest) to test the parsing logic without making real network calls.
| RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error { | ||
| subredditName := args[0] | ||
| outputFile, _ := cmd.Flags().GetString("output") | ||
| limit, _ := cmd.Flags().GetInt("limit") | ||
| sort, _ := cmd.Flags().GetString("sort") | ||
| format, _ := cmd.Flags().GetString("format") | ||
| compression, _ := cmd.Flags().GetString("compression") | ||
| password, _ := cmd.Flags().GetString("password") | ||
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| if format != "datanode" && format != "tim" && format != "trix" { | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("invalid format: %s (must be 'datanode', 'tim', or 'trix')", format) | ||
| } | ||
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| threads, err := reddit.ScrapeSubreddit(subredditName, sort, limit) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("failed to scrape subreddit: %w", err) | ||
| } | ||
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| dn := datanode.New() | ||
| for _, threadStub := range threads { | ||
| thread, err := reddit.ScrapeThread(threadStub.URL) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| // It's better to log the error and continue | ||
| fmt.Fprintf(cmd.ErrOrStderr(), "failed to scrape thread %s: %v\n", threadStub.URL, err) | ||
| continue | ||
| } | ||
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| var builder strings.Builder | ||
| builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("# %s\n\n", thread.Title)) | ||
| builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%s\n\n", thread.Post)) | ||
| for _, comment := range thread.Comments { | ||
| builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("## %s\n\n", comment.Author)) | ||
| builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%s\n\n", comment.Body)) | ||
| } | ||
| // Sanitize filename | ||
| filename := strings.ReplaceAll(thread.Title, " ", "_") | ||
| filename = strings.ReplaceAll(filename, "/", "_") | ||
| err = dn.AddData(fmt.Sprintf("r-%s/posts/%s.md", subredditName, filename), []byte(builder.String())) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("error adding data to DataNode: %w", err) | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
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| var data []byte | ||
| if format == "tim" { | ||
| tim, err := tim.FromDataNode(dn) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("error creating tim: %w", err) | ||
| } | ||
| data, err = tim.ToTar() | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("error serializing tim: %w", err) | ||
| } | ||
| } else if format == "trix" { | ||
| data, err = trix.ToTrix(dn, password) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("error serializing trix: %w", err) | ||
| } | ||
| } else { | ||
| data, err = dn.ToTar() | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("error serializing DataNode: %w", err) | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
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| compressedData, err := compress.Compress(data, compression) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("error compressing data: %w", err) | ||
| } | ||
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| if outputFile == "" { | ||
| outputFile = "subreddit." + format | ||
| if compression != "none" { | ||
| outputFile += "." + compression | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
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| err = os.WriteFile(outputFile, compressedData, 0644) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("error writing subreddit to file: %w", err) | ||
| } | ||
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| fmt.Fprintln(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "Subreddit saved to", outputFile) | ||
| return nil | ||
| }, |
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The logic within this RunE function is nearly identical to the one in cmd/collect_reddit_user.go. This significant code duplication makes maintenance harder. Consider refactoring the common logic into a shared helper function. This function could take parameters like the scraper function (reddit.ScrapeSubreddit or reddit.ScrapeUser), the name of the entity being scraped (subreddit or user name), and the prefix for the datanode path (r- or u-).
Additionally, the markdown generation logic is duplicated across collect_reddit_subreddit.go, collect_reddit_thread.go, and collect_reddit_user.go. This could also be extracted into a helper function, for example, func threadToMarkdown(thread *reddit.Thread) []byte.
| func ScrapeSubreddit(name, sort string, limit int) ([]*Thread, error) { | ||
| url := fmt.Sprintf("https://old.reddit.com/r/%s/", name) | ||
| if sort == "top" { | ||
| url = fmt.Sprintf("https://old.reddit.com/r/%s/top/?t=all", name) | ||
| } | ||
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| res, err := http.Get(url) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to fetch URL: %w", err) | ||
| } | ||
| defer res.Body.Close() | ||
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| if res.StatusCode != 200 { | ||
| return nil, fmt.Errorf("request failed with status: %s", res.Status) | ||
| } | ||
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| doc, err := goquery.NewDocumentFromReader(res.Body) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to parse HTML: %w", err) | ||
| } | ||
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| var threads []*Thread | ||
| doc.Find("div.thing.link").Each(func(i int, s *goquery.Selection) { | ||
| if i >= limit { | ||
| return | ||
| } | ||
| title := s.Find("a.title").Text() | ||
| postURL, _ := s.Find("a.title").Attr("href") | ||
| if !strings.HasPrefix(postURL, "http") { | ||
| postURL = "https://old.reddit.com" + postURL | ||
| } | ||
| threads = append(threads, &Thread{Title: title, URL: postURL}) | ||
| }) | ||
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| return threads, nil | ||
| } | ||
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| // ScrapeUser fetches and parses a user's posts. | ||
| func ScrapeUser(name string) ([]*Thread, error) { | ||
| url := fmt.Sprintf("https://old.reddit.com/user/%s/", name) | ||
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| res, err := http.Get(url) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to fetch URL: %w", err) | ||
| } | ||
| defer res.Body.Close() | ||
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| if res.StatusCode != 200 { | ||
| return nil, fmt.Errorf("request failed with status: %s", res.Status) | ||
| } | ||
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| doc, err := goquery.NewDocumentFromReader(res.Body) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to parse HTML: %w", err) | ||
| } | ||
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| var threads []*Thread | ||
| doc.Find("div.thing.link").Each(func(i int, s *goquery.Selection) { | ||
| title := s.Find("a.title").Text() | ||
| postURL, _ := s.Find("a.title").Attr("href") | ||
| if !strings.HasPrefix(postURL, "http") { | ||
| postURL = "https://old.reddit.com" + postURL | ||
| } | ||
| threads = append(threads, &Thread{Title: title, URL: postURL}) | ||
| }) | ||
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| return threads, nil | ||
| } |
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The functions ScrapeSubreddit and ScrapeUser are almost identical. The only difference is the URL being scraped. This code duplication can be avoided by creating a single, more generic function that takes the full URL as an argument.
Example refactoring:
// ScrapeListPage fetches a list of thread stubs from a Reddit list page (like a subreddit or user page).
func ScrapeListPage(url string, limit int) ([]*Thread, error) {
// ... implementation from ScrapeSubreddit ...
// use the limit parameter, where a value <= 0 means no limit
}
// ScrapeSubreddit fetches and parses a subreddit's posts.
func ScrapeSubreddit(name, sort string, limit int) ([]*Thread, error) {
url := fmt.Sprintf("https://old.reddit.com/r/%s/", name)
if sort == "top" {
url = fmt.Sprintf("https://old.reddit.com/r/%s/top/?t=all", name)
}
return ScrapeListPage(url, limit)
}
// ScrapeUser fetches and parses a user's posts.
func ScrapeUser(name string) ([]*Thread, error) {
url := fmt.Sprintf("https://old.reddit.com/user/%s/", name)
return ScrapeListPage(url, 0) // No limit for user pages
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| return fmt.Errorf("invalid format: %s (must be 'datanode', 'tim', or 'trix')", format) | ||
| } |
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The allowed format types (datanode, tim, trix) are used as magic strings. It would be better to define these as constants at the package level to avoid typos and improve maintainability. You could also create a helper function or a map to validate the format more cleanly.
Example:
// At package level
const (
formatDataNode = "datanode"
formatTIM = "tim"
formatTRIX = "trix"
)
// In RunE
if format != formatDataNode && format != formatTIM && format != formatTRIX {
return fmt.Errorf("invalid format: %s (must be '%s', '%s', or '%s')", format, formatDataNode, formatTIM, formatTRIX)
}| filename := strings.ReplaceAll(thread.Title, " ", "_") | ||
| filename = strings.ReplaceAll(filename, "/", "_") |
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The current filename sanitization is basic and only replaces spaces and forward slashes. Reddit titles can contain various other characters that are invalid in filenames on different operating systems (e.g., \, :, *, ?, ", <, >, |). This could cause errors when writing files.
Consider using a regular expression to replace any character that is not a letter, number, underscore, dot, or hyphen with an underscore.
Example:
import "regexp"
// ...
var re = regexp.MustCompile(`[^\w.-]`)
filename := re.ReplaceAllString(thread.Title, "_")| url = strings.Replace(url, "reddit.com", "old.reddit.com", 1) | ||
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| res, err := http.Get(url) |
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Each scraping function calls http.Get directly, which uses the default HTTP client. This can be inefficient as it doesn't reuse TCP connections across requests. It's better practice to create a single http.Client instance and reuse it for all requests. This also makes it easier to configure settings like timeouts or custom headers (e.g., a User-Agent) in one place. This applies to ScrapeThread, ScrapeSubreddit, and ScrapeUser.
Example:
// At package level
var client = &http.Client{
Timeout: 30 * time.Second,
}
// In scraping functions
res, err := client.Get(url)
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| thread := &Thread{} |
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The ScrapeThread function returns a *Thread object, but it doesn't populate the URL field of the struct. The Thread struct has a URL field, and it would be useful for the caller to have the URL of the scraped thread.
| thread := &Thread{} | |
| thread := &Thread{URL: url} |
| } | ||
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| // ScrapeSubreddit fetches and parses a subreddit's posts. | ||
| func ScrapeSubreddit(name, sort string, limit int) ([]*Thread, error) { |
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The function ScrapeSubreddit (and ScrapeUser) returns a []*Thread, but it only populates the Title and URL fields of each Thread object. The other fields like Post and Comments are left as their zero values. This is misleading for callers of the function, who might expect a fully populated Thread.
Consider defining a separate, lighter struct like ThreadStub for this purpose, which only contains the fields that are actually populated.
// ThreadStub represents a link to a Reddit thread.
type ThreadStub struct {
Title string
URL string
}
// ScrapeSubreddit would then return []*ThreadStub
func ScrapeSubreddit(name, sort string, limit int) ([]*ThreadStub, error) { /* ... */ }
This change adds a new feature to the
borgCLI tool that allows archiving Reddit threads, subreddits, and user posts. It includes a newcollect redditcommand withthread,subreddit, andusersubcommands, along with the necessary scraping logic to fetch and process content fromold.reddit.com.Fixes #37
PR created automatically by Jules for task 14587013347023264372 started by @Snider