48 lines
1.5 KiB
Python
48 lines
1.5 KiB
Python
"""
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This module handles the detection of crawlers, so that we can handle them
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appropriately in other parts of the code.
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"""
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from config_models.models import ConfigurationModel
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from django.db import models
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class CrawlersConfig(ConfigurationModel):
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"""Configuration for the crawlers django app."""
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class Meta(object):
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app_label = "crawlers"
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known_user_agents = models.TextField(
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blank=True,
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help_text="A comma-separated list of known crawler user agents.",
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default='edX-downloader',
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)
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def __unicode__(self):
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return u'CrawlersConfig("{}")'.format(self.known_user_agents)
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@classmethod
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def is_crawler(cls, request):
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"""Determine if the request came from a crawler or not.
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This method is simplistic and only looks at the user agent header at the
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moment, but could later be improved to be smarter about detection.
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"""
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current = cls.current()
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if not current.enabled:
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return False
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req_user_agent = request.META.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT')
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crawler_agents = current.known_user_agents.split(",")
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# If there was no user agent detected or no crawler agents configured,
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# then just return False.
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if (not req_user_agent) or (not crawler_agents):
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return False
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# We perform prefix matching of the crawler agent here so that we don't
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# have to worry about version bumps.
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return any(
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req_user_agent.startswith(crawler_agent)
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for crawler_agent in crawler_agents
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)
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