metaforecast/src/backend/platforms/infer.ts
2022-05-12 17:58:56 +04:00

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TypeScript

/* 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("<h5> <a href=") || str.includes("<h4> <a href="))
let questionHrefs = htmlLines.filter((str) =>
str.includes("https://www.infer-pub.com/questions/")
);
// console.log(questionHrefs)
if (process.env.DEBUG_MODE == "on" || DEBUG_MODE == "on") {
console.log("questionHrefs: ");
console.log(questionHrefs);
}
for (let questionHref of questionHrefs) {
let elementSplit = questionHref.split('"><span>');
let url = elementSplit[0].split('<a href="')[1];
let title = elementSplit[1]
.replace("</h4>", "")
.replace("</h5>", "")
.replace("</span></a>", "");
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;
},
};