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# Crawl lists of active Session Communities
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## What does this site do?
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This script crawls known sources of published Session Communities,
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queries their servers for available information and
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displays this information as a static HTML page.
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The results of this can be viewed on https://sessioncommunities.online/.
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## What is Session?
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Session is a private messaging app that protects your meta-data,
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encrypts your communications, and makes sure your messaging activities
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leave no digital trail behind.
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https://getsession.org/
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## Details
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### Which sources are crawled?
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Currently this script crawls the following sites:
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- https://github.com/GNU-Linux-libre/Awesome-Session-Group-List
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- https://lokilocker.com/Mods/Session-Groups/wiki/Session-Open-Groups
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- https://session.directory/
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Additionally, the following open community servers are polled:
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- https://open.getsession.org
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- http://13.233.251.36:8081
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### Steps
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1. Fetching source HTML: `get_html_from_known_sources()`
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1. Extracting Session invites from the HTML:
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`extract_join_links_from_html()` and `get_servers_from_join_links()`
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1. Making sure servers are online: `reduce_servers()`
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1. Querying the servers for all available rooms
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and normalize active user numbers: `query_servers_for_rooms()`
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1. De-duplicating servers based on public keys:
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`get_pubkeys_of_servers()` and `reduce_addresses_of_pubkeys()`
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1. Aggregating all server info & adding language data: `generate_info_arrays()`
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1. Generating static HTML content: `generateHTML()`
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### Legacy support
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Right now we fully support legacy SOGS servers,
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although this support is likely going to be dropped soon,
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since those servers can not even be joined anymore with current Session clients.
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Dropping legacy support will also increase maintainability.
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### Work around bad routing to Chinese servers
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Depending on your location, it is possible for you to get really bad routing to
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SOGS servers behind the GFW. In this case,
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the initial connection is still successful, but you'll never receive
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any actual content and the retrieval attempt will simply time out.
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This happens randomly. To make sure this won't affect the results, we simply
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check whether the server is online (the initial connection being successful),
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and then retry a lot of times with a short timeout
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until we eventually get the content.
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The details can be seen in `curl_get_contents()`.
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### Official repositories
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- https://github.com/mdPlusPlus/sessioncommunities.online
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- https://lokilocker.com/SomeGuy/sessioncommunities.online
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If your favourite Session community is missing a language flag,
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you can issue a pull request here:
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- https://github.com/mdPlusPlus/sessioncommunities.online-languages/
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## Contact
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If you want to contact me, you can add me on Session via my
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[ONS](https://docs.oxen.io/using-the-oxen-blockchain/using-oxen-name-system):
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"someguy" (without the quotes)
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