/* Imports */ import axios from "axios"; import { FullQuestionOption } from "../../common/types"; import { average } from "../../utils"; import { applyIfSecretExists } from "../utils/getSecrets"; import { measureTime } from "../utils/measureTime"; import { sleep } from "../utils/sleep"; import toMarkdown from "../utils/toMarkdown"; import { FetchedQuestion, Platform } from "./"; /* Definitions */ const platformName = "infer"; const htmlEndPoint = "https://www.infer-pub.com/questions"; const DEBUG_MODE: "on" | "off" = "off"; // "off" const SLEEP_TIME_RANDOM = 7000; // miliseconds const SLEEP_TIME_EXTRA = 2000; /* Support functions */ function cleanDescription(text: string) { let md = toMarkdown(text); let result = md.replaceAll("---", "-").replaceAll(" ", " "); return result; } async function fetchPage(page: number, cookie: string) { console.log(`Page #${page}`); if (page == 1) { cookie = cookie.split(";")[0]; // Interesting that it otherwise doesn't work :( } let urlEndpoint = `${htmlEndPoint}/?page=${page}`; console.log(urlEndpoint); const response: string = await axios({ url: urlEndpoint, method: "GET", headers: { "Content-Type": "text/html", Cookie: cookie, }, }).then((res) => res.data); // console.log(response) return response; } async function fetchStats(questionUrl: string, cookie: string) { let response: string = await axios({ url: questionUrl + "/stats", method: "GET", headers: { "Content-Type": "text/html", Cookie: cookie, Referer: questionUrl, }, }).then((res) => res.data); if (response.includes("Sign up or sign in to forecast")) { throw Error("Not logged in"); } // Init let options: FullQuestionOption[] = []; // Parse the embedded json let htmlElements = response.split("\n"); let jsonLines = htmlElements.filter((element) => element.includes("data-react-props") ); let embeddedJsons = jsonLines.map((jsonLine, i) => { let innerJSONasHTML = jsonLine.split('data-react-props="')[1].split('"')[0]; let json = JSON.parse(innerJSONasHTML.replaceAll(""", '"')); return json; }); let firstEmbeddedJson = embeddedJsons[0]; let title = firstEmbeddedJson.question.name; let description = cleanDescription(firstEmbeddedJson.question.description); let comments_count = firstEmbeddedJson.question.comments_count; let numforecasters = firstEmbeddedJson.question.predictors_count; let numforecasts = firstEmbeddedJson.question.prediction_sets_count; let questionType = firstEmbeddedJson.question.type; if ( questionType.includes("Binary") || questionType.includes("NonExclusiveOpinionPoolQuestion") || questionType.includes("Forecast::Question") || !questionType.includes("Forecast::MultiTimePeriodQuestion") ) { options = firstEmbeddedJson.question.answers.map((answer: any) => ({ name: answer.name, probability: answer.normalized_probability, type: "PROBABILITY", })); if (options.length == 1 && options[0].name == "Yes") { let probabilityNo = options[0].probability > 1 ? 1 - options[0].probability / 100 : 1 - options[0].probability; options.push({ name: "No", probability: probabilityNo, type: "PROBABILITY", }); } } let result = { description: description, options: options, qualityindicators: { numforecasts: Number(numforecasts), numforecasters: Number(numforecasters), comments_count: Number(comments_count), }, }; // console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 4)); return result; } function isSignedIn(html: string) { let isSignedInBool = !( html.includes("You need to sign in or sign up before continuing") || html.includes("Sign up") ); if (!isSignedInBool) { console.log("Error: Not signed in."); } console.log(`Signed in? ${isSignedInBool ? "yes" : "no"}`); return isSignedInBool; } function reachedEnd(html: string) { let reachedEndBool = html.includes("No questions match your filter"); if (reachedEndBool) { //console.log(html) } console.log(`Reached end? ${reachedEndBool ? "yes" : "no"}`); return reachedEndBool; } /* Body */ async function infer_inner(cookie: string) { let i = 1; let response = await fetchPage(i, cookie); let results: FetchedQuestion[] = []; await measureTime(async () => { // console.log("Downloading... This might take a couple of minutes. Results will be shown.") while (!reachedEnd(response) && isSignedIn(response)) { let htmlLines = response.split("\n"); // let h4elements = htmlLines.filter(str => str.includes("
'); let url = elementSplit[0].split('", "") .replace("
", "") .replace("", ""); await sleep(Math.random() * SLEEP_TIME_RANDOM + SLEEP_TIME_EXTRA); // don't be as noticeable try { const moreinfo = await fetchStats(url, cookie); const questionNumRegex = new RegExp("questions/([0-9]+)"); const questionNumMatch = url.match(questionNumRegex); if (!questionNumMatch) { throw new Error(`Couldn't find question num in ${url}`); } let questionNum = questionNumMatch[1]; const id = `${platformName}-${questionNum}`; let question: FetchedQuestion = { id, title, url, ...moreinfo, }; console.log(JSON.stringify(question, null, 4)); if ( i % 30 == 0 && !(process.env.DEBUG_MODE == "on" || DEBUG_MODE == "on") ) { console.log(`Page #${i}`); console.log(question); } results.push(question); if (process.env.DEBUG_MODE == "on" || DEBUG_MODE == "on") { console.log(url); console.log(question); } } catch (error) { console.log(error); console.log( `We encountered some error when fetching the URL: ${url}, so it won't appear on the final json` ); } } i++; console.log( "Sleeping for ~5secs so as to not be as noticeable to the infer servers" ); await sleep(Math.random() * SLEEP_TIME_RANDOM + SLEEP_TIME_EXTRA); // don't be as noticeable try { response = await fetchPage(i, cookie); } catch (error) { console.log(error); console.log( `The program encountered some error when fetching page #${i}, so it won't appear on the final json. It is possible that this page wasn't actually a prediction question pages` ); } } }); if (results.length === 0) { console.log("Not updating results, as process was not signed in"); return; } return results; } export const infer: Platform = { name: platformName, label: "Infer", color: "#223900", version: "v1", async fetcher() { let cookie = process.env.INFER_COOKIE; return (await applyIfSecretExists(cookie, infer_inner)) || null; }, calculateStars(data) { let nuno = () => 2; let eli = () => null; let misha = () => null; let starsDecimal = average([nuno()]); //, eli(), misha()]) let starsInteger = Math.round(starsDecimal); return starsInteger; }, };