Closed da2x closed 6 years ago
maxenceC
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6 years ago I've written a script to do so, but I'm now using an even better way to detect Brave verified publishers : Using Brave's project API :
https://mercury-proxy.privateinternetaccess.com/v3/publisher/identity?publisher=[publisher_id]
With publisher_id being the website url (without www)
maxenceC
commented
6 years ago I just need to push the code and update this repository, but using Brave's API is what I am currently using for : https://batgrowth.com/publishers
The script is running right now
da2x
commented
6 years ago That is a way better method. However, you could actually keep the DNS and text-file verification to track the number of websites that have attempted to be verified but have either failed or been rejected!
da2x
commented
6 years ago https://mercury-proxy.privateinternetaccess.com/v3/publisher/identity?publisher=example.com
Do you happen to have a field definition for the return values?
maxenceC
commented
6 years ago Sure @da2x
{"SLD":"coinmarketcap.com","RLD":"","QLD":"","publisher":"coinmarketcap.com","properties":{"timestamp":"6530659526331334879","verified":true}}
You want to check the value for properties.verified boolean
maxenceC
commented
6 years ago However, you could actually keep the DNS and text-file verification to track the number of websites that have attempted to be verified but have either failed or been rejected!
True, this is how I discovered that imgur tried to get verified (https://imgur.com/.well-known/brave-payments-verification.txt), but failed/didn't finish the process.
I'll keep the 3 methods within the script in this repository:
Thanks for the insights
Request and download: https://example.com/.well-known/brave-payments-verification.txt (also test www-subdomain if bare domain don’t yield the expected result.) You may need to uncompress the result even when not requesting it with Accept-Encoding because many web servers are misconfigured. Do follow up to ten redirects. HTTPS is required, so no need to test HTTP.
You can then assume it’s a Brave verified publisher if this file is one line (plus optional blank lines) which starts with the exact string
brave-ledger-verification=.