A generic automation tool around data stored as plaintext YAML files.
This program uses YAML files to store data about various kind of items (bookmarks, software projects, ...) and apply various processing tasks. Functionality is implemented in separate modules.
Import data from various input formats:
Perform processing tasks on YAML data:
Export data to other formats:
# install requirements
sudo apt install python3-venv python3-pip
# create a python virtualenv
python3 -m venv ~/.venv
# activate the virtualenv
source ~/.venv/bin/activate
# install the program
pip3 install git+https://gitlab.com/nodiscc/hecat.git
To install from a local copy instead:
# grab a copy
git clone https://gitlab.com/nodiscc/hecat.git
# install the python package
cd hecat && python3 -m pip install .
To install a specific release, adapt the git clone
or pip3 install
command:
pip3 install git+https://gitlab.com/nodiscc/hecat.git@1.0.2
git clone -b 1.0.2 https://gitlab.com/nodiscc/hecat.git
$ hecat --help
usage: hecat [-h] [--config CONFIG_FILE] [--log-level {ERROR,WARNING,INFO,DEBUG}]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--config CONFIG_FILE configuration file (default .hecat.yml)
--log-level {ERROR,WARNING,INFO,DEBUG} log level (default INFO)
--log-file LOG_FILE log file (default none)
If no configuration file is specified, configuration is read from .hecat.yml
in the current directory.
hecat executes all steps defined in the configuration file. For each step:
steps:
- name: example step # arbitrary name for this step
module: processor/example # the module to use, see list of modules above
module_options: # a dict of options specific to the module, see list of modules above
option1: True
option2: some_value
Import data from awesome-selfhosted's markdown list format:
# .hecat.import.yml
# $ git clone https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
# $ git clone https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted-data
steps:
- name: import awesome-selfhosted README.md to YAML
module: importers/markdown_awesome
module_options:
source_file: awesome-selfhosted/README.md
output_directory: ./
output_licenses_file: licenses.yml # optional, default licenses.yml
overwrite_tags: False # optional, default False
Check data against awesome-selfhosted formatting guidelines, export to single page markdown and static HTML site (see awesome-selfhosted-data, its Makefile
and Github Actions workflows for complete usage examples. See awesome-selfhosted and awesome-selfhosted-html for example output):
# .hecat.export.yml
steps:
- name: check data against awesome-selfhosted guidelines
module: processors/awesome_lint
module_options:
source_directory: awesome-selfhosted-data
licenses_files:
- licenses.yml
- licenses-nonfree.yml
- name: export YAML data to single-page markdown
module: exporters/markdown_singlepage
module_options:
source_directory: awesome-selfhosted-data # source/YAML data directory
output_directory: awesome-selfhosted # output directory
output_file: README.md # output markdown file
markdown_header: markdown/header.md # (optional, default none) path to markdown file to use as header (relative to source_directory)
markdown_footer: markdown/footer.md # (optional, default none) path to markdown file to use as footer (relative to source_directory)
back_to_top_url: '#awesome-selfhosted' # (optional, default #) the URL/anchor to use in 'back to top' links
exclude_licenses: # (optional, default none) do not write software items with any of these licenses to the output file
- '⊘ Proprietary'
- 'BUSL-1.1'
- 'CC-BY-NC-4.0'
- 'CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0'
- 'CC-BY-ND-3.0'
- 'Commons-Clause'
- 'DPL'
- 'SSPL-1.0'
- 'DPL'
- 'Elastic-1.0'
- 'Elastic-2.0'
- name: export YAML data to single-page markdown (non-free.md)
module: exporters/markdown_singlepage
module_options:
source_directory: awesome-selfhosted-data
output_directory: awesome-selfhosted
output_file: non-free.md
markdown_header: markdown/non-free-header.md
licenses_file: licenses-nonfree.yml # (optional, default licenses.yml) YAML file to load licenses from
back_to_top_url: '##awesome-selfhosted---non-free-software'
render_empty_categories: False # (optional, default True) do not render categories which contain 0 items
render_category_headers: False # (optional, default True) do not render category headers (description, related categories, external links...)
include_licenses: # (optional, default none) only render items matching at least one of these licenses (cannot be used together with exclude_licenses) (by identifier)
- '⊘ Proprietary'
- 'BUSL-1.1'
- 'CC-BY-NC-4.0'
- 'CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0'
- 'CC-BY-ND-3.0'
- 'Commons-Clause'
- 'DPL'
- 'SSPL-1.0'
- 'DPL'
- 'Elastic-1.0'
- 'Elastic-2.0'
- name: export YAML data to multi-page markdown/HTML site
module: exporters/markdown_multipage
module_options:
source_directory: awesome-selfhosted-data # directory containing YAML data
output_directory: awesome-selfhosted-html # directory to write markdown pages to
exclude_licenses: # optional, default []
- '⊘ Proprietary'
- 'BUSL-1.1'
- 'CC-BY-NC-4.0'
- 'CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0'
- 'CC-BY-ND-3.0'
- 'Commons-Clause'
- 'DPL'
- 'SSPL-1.0'
- 'DPL'
- 'Elastic-1.0'
- 'Elastic-2.0'
# $ sphinx-build -b html -c awesome-selfhosted-data/ awesome-selfhosted-html/md/ awesome-selfhosted-html/html/
# $ rm -r tests/awesome-selfhosted-html/html/.buildinfo tests/awesome-selfhosted-html/html/objects.inv awesome-selfhosted-html/html/.doctrees
Update metadata before rebuilding HTML/markdown output:
# .hecat.update_metadata.yml
steps:
- name: update github projects metadata
module: processors/github_metadata
module_options:
source_directory: awesome-selfhosted-data # directory containing YAML data and software subdirectory
gh_metadata_only_missing: True # (default False) only gather metadata for software entries in which one of stargazers_count,updated_at, archived is missing
sleep_time: 7.3 # (default 0) sleep for this amount of time before each request to Github API
Check URLs for dead links:
# .hecat.url_check.yml
steps:
- name: check URLs
module: processors/url_check
module_options:
source_directories:
- awesome-selfhosted-data/software
- awesome-selfhosted-data/tags
source_files:
- awesome-selfhosted-data/licenses.yml
errors_are_fatal: True
exclude_regex:
- '^https://github.com/[\w\.\-]+/[\w\.\-]+$' # don't check URLs that will be processed by the github_metadata module
- '^https://retrospring.net/$' # DDoS protection page, always returns 403
- '^https://www.taiga.io/$' # always returns 403 Request forbidden by administrative rules
- '^https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/$' # DDoS protection page, always returns 403
- '^https://demo.paperless-ngx.com/$' # DDoS protection page, always returns 403
- '^https://git.dotclear.org/dev/dotclear$' # DDoS protection page, always returns 403
- '^https://word-mastermind.glitch.me/$' # the demo instance takes a long time to spin up, times out with the default 10s timeout
- '^https://getgrist.com/$' # hecat/python-requests bug? 'Received response with content-encoding: gzip,br, but failed to decode it.'
- '^https://www.uvdesk.com/$' # DDoS protection page, always returns 403
- '^https://demo.uvdesk.com/$' # DDoS protection page, always returns 403
- '^https://notes.orga.cat/$' # DDoS protection page, always returns 403
- '^https://cytu.be$' # DDoS protection page, always returns 403
- '^https://demo.reservo.co/$' # hecat/python-requests bug? always returns 404 but the website works in a browser
- '^https://crates.io/crates/vigil-server$' # hecat/python-requests bug? always returns 404 but the website works in a browser
- '^https://nitter.net$' # always times out from github actions but the website works in a browser
Import data from a Shaarli instance, download video/audio files identified by specific tags, check for dead links, export to single-page HTML page/table:
# hecat consumes output from https://github.com/shaarli/python-shaarli-client
# install the python API client
python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && pip3 install shaarli-client
# edit python-shaarli-client configuration file
mkdir -p ~/.config/shaarli/ && nano ~/.config/shaarli/client.ini
# ~/.config/shaarli/client.ini
[shaarli]
url = https://links.example.org
secret = AAAbbbZZZvvvSSStttUUUvvVXYZ
# download data from your shaarli instance
shaarli --outfile /path/to/shaarli-export.json get-links --limit=all
# .hecat.yml
steps:
- name: import data from shaarli API JSON
module: importers/shaarli_api
module_options:
source_file: /path/to/shaarli-export.json
output_file: shaarli.yml
skip_existing: True # (default True) skip importing items whose 'url:' already exists in the output file
clean_removed: False # (default False) remove items from the output file, whose 'url:' was not found in the input file
sort_by: created # (default 'created') key by which to sort the output list
sort_reverse: True # (default True) sort the output list in reverse order
- name: download video files
module: processors/download_media
module_options:
data_file: shaarli.yml # path to the YAML data file
only_tags: ['video'] # only download items tagged with all these tags
exclude_tags: ['nodl'] # (default []), don't download items tagged with any of these tags
output_directory: '/path/to/video/directory' # path to the output directory for media files
download_playlists: False # (default False) download playlists
skip_when_filename_present: True # (default True) skip processing when item already has a 'video_filename/audio_filename': key
retry_items_with_error: True # (default True) retry downloading items for which an error was previously recorded
use_download_archive: True # (default True) use a yt-dlp archive file to record downloaded items, skip them if already downloaded
- name: download audio files
module: processors/download_media
module_options:
data_file: shaarli.yml
only_tags: ['music']
exclude_tags: ['nodl']
output_directory: '/path/to/audio/directory'
only_audio: True # (default False) download the 'bestaudio' format instead of the default 'best'
- name: check URLs
module: processors/url_check
module_options:
source_files:
- shaarli.yml
check_keys:
- url
errors_are_fatal: True
exclude_regex:
- '^https://www.youtube.com/watch.*$' # don't check youtube video URLs, always returns HTTP 200 even for unavailable videos```
- name: archive webpages for items tagged 'hecat' or 'doc'
module: processors/archive_webpages
module_options:
data_file: shaarli.yml
only_tags: ['hecat', 'doc']
exclude_tags: ['nodl']
output_directory: webpages
clean_removed: True
- name: export shaarli data to HTML table
module: exporters/html_table
module_options:
source_file: shaarli.yml # file from which data will be loaded
output_file: index.html # (default index.html) output HTML table file
html_title: "Shaarli export - shaarli.example.org" # (default "hecat HTML export") output HTML title
description_format: paragraph # (details/paragraph, default details) wrap the description in a HTML details tag
ffmpeg must be installed for audio/video conversion support. jdupes, soundalike and videoduplicatefinder may further help dealing with duplicate files and media.
Please submit any questions to https://gitlab.com/nodiscc/hecat/-/issues or https://github.com/nodiscc/hecat/issues
Bug reports, suggestions, code cleanup, documentation, tests, improvements, support for other input/output formats are welcome at https://gitlab.com/nodiscc/hecat/-/merge_requests or https://github.com/nodiscc/hecat/pulls
# install pyvenv, pip and make
$ sudo apt install python3-pip python3-venv make
# run tests using the Makefile
$ make help
USAGE: make TARGET
Available targets:
help generate list of targets with descriptions
clean clean files generated by make install/test_run
install install in a virtualenv
test run tests
test_short run tests except those that consume github API requests/long URL checks
test_pylint run linter (non blocking)
clone_awesome_selfhosted clone awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted-data
test_import_awesome_selfhosted test import from awesome-sefhosted
test_process_awesome_selfhosted test all processing steps on awesome-selfhosted-data
test_url_check test URL checker on awesome-sefhosted-data
test_update_github_metadata test github metadata updater/processor on awesome-selfhosted-data
test_awesome_lint test linter/compliance checker on awesome-sefhosted-data
test_export_awesome_selfhosted_md test export to singlepage markdown from awesome-selfhosted-data
test_export_awesome_selfhosted_html test export to singlepage HTML from awesome-selfhosted-data
test_import_shaarli test import from shaarli JSON
test_download_video test downloading videos from the shaarli import, test log file creation
test_download_audio test downloading audio files from the shaarli import
test_archive_webpages test webpage archiving
test_export_html_table test exporting shaarli data to HTML table
scan_trivy run trivy vulnerability scanner