/* Imports */ import axios from "axios" import {getCookie, applyIfCookieExists} from "../utils/getCookies.js" import {Tabletojson} from "tabletojson" import toMarkdown from "../utils/toMarkdown.js" import {calculateStars} from "../utils/stars.js" import {upsert} from "../utils/mongo-wrapper.js" /* Definitions */ let htmlEndPoint = 'https://www.cset-foretell.com/questions?page=' String.prototype.replaceAll = function replaceAll(search, replace) { return this.split(search).join(replace); } /* Support functions */ async function fetchPage(page, cookie){ if(page==1){ cookie=cookie.split(";")[0] // Interesting that it otherwise doesn't work :( } let response = await axios({ url: htmlEndPoint+page, method: 'GET', headers: ({ 'Content-Type': 'text/html', 'Cookie': cookie }), }) .then(res => res.data) // console.log(response) return response } async function fetchStats(questionUrl, cookie){ let response = await axios({ url: questionUrl+"/stats", method: 'GET', headers: ({ 'Content-Type': 'text/html', 'Cookie': cookie, 'Referer': questionUrl, }), }) .then(res => res.data) //console.log(response) // Is binary? let isbinary = response.includes("binary?":true") // console.log(`is binary? ${isbinary}`) let options = [] if(isbinary){ // Crowd percentage let htmlElements = response.split("\n") // console.log(htmlElements) let h3Element = htmlElements.filter(str => str.includes("

"))[0] let crowdpercentage = h3Element.split(">")[1].split("<")[0] let probability = Number(crowdpercentage.replace("%", ""))/100 options.push(({ name: "Yes", probability: probability, type: "PROBABILITY" }), ({ name: "No", probability: +(1-probability).toFixed(2), // avoids floating point shenanigans type: "PROBABILITY" })) }else{ let optionsBody = response.split("tbody")[3] // Previously [1], but they added a new table. // console.log(optionsBody) let optionsHtmlElement = "" let tablesAsJson = Tabletojson.convert(optionsHtmlElement) let firstTable = tablesAsJson[0] options = firstTable.map(element => ({ name: element['0'], probability: Number(element['1'].replace("%",""))/100, type: "PROBABILITY" })) } // Description let descriptionraw = response.split(``)[0] let descriptionprocessed2 = descriptionprocessed1.replace(">", "") let descriptionprocessed3 = descriptionprocessed2.replace("To suggest a change or clarification to this question, please select Request Clarification from the green gear-shaped dropdown button to the right of the question.", ``) // console.log(descriptionprocessed3) let descriptionprocessed4=descriptionprocessed3.replaceAll("\r\n\r\n", "\n") let descriptionprocessed5= descriptionprocessed4.replaceAll("\n\n", "\n") let descriptionprocessed6=descriptionprocessed5.replaceAll(""", `"`) let descriptionprocessed7=descriptionprocessed6.replaceAll("'", "'") let descriptionprocessed8=toMarkdown(descriptionprocessed7) let description = descriptionprocessed8 // Number of forecasts let numforecasts = response.split("prediction_sets_count":")[1].split(",")[0] // console.log(numforecasts) // Number of predictors let numforecasters = response.split("predictors_count":")[1].split(",")[0] // console.log(numpredictors) let result = { "description": description, "options": options, "timestamp": new Date().toISOString(), "qualityindicators": { "numforecasts": numforecasts, "numforecasters": numforecasters, "stars": calculateStars("CSET-foretell", {numforecasts}) } } return result } function isEnd(html){ return html.includes("No questions match your filter") } function sleep(ms) { return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms)); } /* Body */ async function csetforetell_inner(cookie){ let i=1 let response = await fetchPage(i, cookie) let results = [] let init = Date.now() // console.log("Downloading... This might take a couple of minutes. Results will be shown.") while(!isEnd(response)){ let htmlLines = response.split("\n") let h4elements = htmlLines.filter(str => str.includes("
') let url = h4elementSplit[0].split('
', "") await sleep(1000 + Math.random()*1000) // don't be as noticeable try{ let moreinfo = await fetchStats(url, cookie) if(moreinfo.isbinary){ if(!moreinfo.crowdpercentage){ // then request again. moreinfo = await fetchStats(url, cookie) } } let question = ({ "title": title, "url": url, "platform": "CSET-foretell", ...moreinfo }) if(i % 30 == 0){ console.log(`Page #${i}`) console.log(question) } results.push(question) if(process.env.DEBUG_MODE == "on"){ console.log(question) } } catch(error){ console.log(error) console.log(`We encountered some error when fetching the URL: ${url}, so it won't appear on the final json`) } } i=i+1 // console.log("Sleeping for ~5secs so as to not be as noticeable to the cset-foretell servers") await sleep(5000 + Math.random()*1000) // don't be as noticeable try{ response = await fetchPage(i, cookie) }catch(error){ console.log(error) console.log(`The program encountered some error when fetching page #${i}, so it won't appear on the final json. It is possible that this page wasn't actually a prediction question pages`) } } // let string = JSON.stringify(results,null, 2) // fs.writeFileSync('./data/csetforetell-questions.json', string); // console.log(results) await upsert(results, "csetforetell-questions") let end = Date.now() let difference = end-init console.log(`Took ${difference/1000} seconds, or ${difference/(1000*60)} minutes.`) } export async function csetforetell(){ let cookie = process.env.CSETFORETELL_COOKIE || getCookie("csetforetell") await applyIfCookieExists(cookie, csetforetell_inner) }