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https://github.com/uriel1998/muna

Clean a series of links, resolving redirects and finding Wayback results if page is gone. Originally written to aid with importing from ArchiveBox.
https://github.com/uriel1998/muna

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Clean a series of links, resolving redirects and finding Wayback results if page is gone. Originally written to aid with importing from ArchiveBox.

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# muna



Clean a series of links, resolving redirects and finding Wayback results if page is gone



![muna logo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uriel1998/muna/master/muna-open-graph.png "logo")



## Contents

 1. [About](#1-about)

 2. [License](#2-license)

 3. [Prerequisites](#3-prerequisites)

 4. [Installation](#4-installation)

 5. [Usage](#5-usage)

 6. [TODO](#6-todo)



***



## 1. About



Originally, `muna` was `uniredirector` for my program [agaetr](https://github.com/uriel1998/agaetr),

but grew to be quite a bit more multipurpose.  (The script in `agaetr` is now 

enhanced to be identical to `muna` but in name.



I ended up writing this because of [ArchiveBox](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox). It's 

a great self-hosted archiving system, but when you throw a random list of URLs

(or worse, different types of RSS feeds) at it, you get... *mixed* results. It 

does not handle redirects too well, and if something is just 404, you're out of 

luck.  So I wrote `feeds-in` to preprocess inputs from both persnickety RSS 

feeds and a plain list of URLs. It's included here as a use example of how to 

use `muna` and the bash function `unredirect`.



`muna` is an old norse word meaning "call to mind, remember".



## 2. License



This project is licensed under the Apache License. For the full license, see `LICENSE`.



## 3. Prerequisites



* bash

* awk

* curl 

* wget

* sed



On many linux installations these may already be installed; if not, they're 

in your package manager.  (If you have to build *these* from source, you don't 

need *me* telling you how to do that!)



## 4. Installation



### muna



Clone or download this repository. Put `muna.sh` somewhere in your `$PATH` or 

call/source it explicitly.  



### feeds-in.sh



While this script is included here as an example, it is a fully functional 

DEATH ST... script. It's a functional script, appropriate to put in a cronjob 

to preprocess sources of URLs for `ArchiveBox`.  Or use it as the base of a 

script to meet your needs.



One important and *super* useful note for someone who already has a big list of 

URLs from some other program: All you have to do is put that text file, one URL 

per line, in `RAWDIR` (which you'll configure here in a second) and that list 

will be pulled seamlessly into the workflow.



If you are using `feeds-in.sh` with `ArchiveBox`, you will need to edit 

these lines as appropriate for you:



```

APPDIR="/home/www-data/apps/ArchiveBox-Docker"

RAWDIR="$APPDIR/rawdata"

DATADIR="$APPDIR/data"

source "$APPDIR/muna.sh"



```



`APPDIR` should be to your `ArchiveBox` installation. `RAWDIR` is a work 

directory where you can also put any text file with a plain list of URLs. 

`DATADIR` should be the data directory of your `ArchiveBox` installation.



There are several example feeds (starting around line 50). Each strips that 

particular RSS feed (or XML sitemap) down to a series of URLs, one per line, 

written in a text file.  



The `sed` and `awk` strings are left here as an example for these particular 

kinds of feeds. Feel free to use them as a starting point, but I won't guarantee 

they work for *your* feeds, they just work for *these* feeds.



The console output here is a progress bar unless there are errors. The text 

file is time-date stamped to avoid collisions and overwrites.



Then `feeds-in.sh` calls `ArchiveBox` to import that list of URLs. Uncomment 

the appropriate line in this section for your style of installation. Note that 

the *docker-compose* and standalone *docker* commands are quite different; 

don't confuse them!  (I won't tell you how I know... sigh.)



```

###############################START PARTS TO EDIT########################



# Uncomment the next line for non-docker installations

#./archive /"$OUTFILESHORT"    



# Uncomment the next line for docker-compose installations   

docker-compose exec archivebox /bin/archive /"$OUTFILESHORT"



# Uncomment the next line for docker *NOT DOCKER COMPOSE* installations

#cat "$OUTFILE" | docker run -i -v ~/ArchiveBox:/data nikisweeting/archivebox

    

```



## 5. Usage



### muna



If there's a redirect, whether from a shortener or, say, redirected to HTTPS, 

`muna` will follow that and change the variable `"$url"` (or return to STDOUT) 

the appropriate URL. If there is any other error (including if the page is gone or 

the server has disappeared), it will see if the page is saved at the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org) 

and return the latest capture instead.  If it cannot find a copy anywhere, it 

changes the variable `"$url"` to a NULL string and returns nothing, 

exiting with the exit code `99`.



### Standalone



`muna.sh [-q] URL`



 * -q : If run standalone, it will return nothing to STDOUT except for the unredirected URL. Some error messages may print to STDERR.



### As a function



Put this line at the top of your script.



`source path/to/muna`

    

In your script, the variable `$url` must be set before calling the function 

`unredirect`. Afterward, if a successful match was made, `$url` will be 

set appropriately. If no match was made, `$url` will be set to NULL. Like

this example in `feeds-in.sh`.

    

```

url=$(printf "%s" "$line")

unredirector 

if [ ! -z "$url" ];then  #yup, that url exists

    echo "$url" >> "$OUTFILE"

fi     

```



### feeds-in.sh



`bash ./feeds-in.sh`

    

Seriously, that's it. If you edited things in the script to meet your system, then you should be done.

    

## 6. TODO



### Roadmap: