From 80491ecc2c63296330e2d1d207f7afc17b07c942 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JustAnotherArchivist <JustAnotherArchivist@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 00:23:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove Gab module

Since Gab's move to a fork of Mastodon in July 2019, the module had been broken, and a new module would better be written from scratch as the platform changed entirely.
---
 snscrape/modules/gab.py | 115 ----------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 115 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 snscrape/modules/gab.py

diff --git a/snscrape/modules/gab.py b/snscrape/modules/gab.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 99ec836..0000000
--- a/snscrape/modules/gab.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,115 +0,0 @@
-import datetime
-import json
-import logging
-import snscrape.base
-import time
-import typing
-import urllib.parse
-
-
-logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-
-
-class GabPost(typing.NamedTuple, snscrape.base.Item):
-	url: str
-	date: datetime.datetime
-	content: str
-
-	def __str__(self):
-		return self.url
-
-
-class GabUserCommonScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
-	def __init__(self, mode, username, **kwargs):
-		super().__init__(**kwargs)
-		if mode not in ('posts', 'comments', 'media'):
-			raise ValueError('Invalid mode')
-		self._mode = mode
-		self._username = username
-		if mode == 'posts':
-			self._baseUrl = f'https://gab.com/api/feed/{username}'
-			self._beforeGlue = '?'
-		elif mode == 'comments':
-			self._baseUrl = f'https://gab.com/api/feed/{username}/comments?includes=post.conversation_parent'
-			self._beforeGlue = '&'
-		elif mode == 'media':
-			self._baseUrl = f'https://gab.com/api/feed/{username}/media'
-			self._beforeGlue = '?'
-
-	def _response_to_items(self, response):
-		yielded = set()
-		for post in response['data']:
-			if post['post']['id'] not in yielded:
-				yield GabPost(
-				  url = f'https://gab.com/{post["post"]["user"]["username"]}/posts/{post["post"]["id"]}',
-				  date = datetime.datetime.strptime(post['post']['created_at'].replace('-', '', 2).replace(':', ''), '%Y%m%dT%H%M%S%z'),
-				  content = post['post']['body'],
-				 )
-				yielded.add(post['post']['id'])
-
-	def get_items(self):
-		headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0', 'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5'}
-
-		logger.info('Retrieving initial data')
-		r = self._get(self._baseUrl, headers = headers)
-		if r.status_code == 404:
-			logger.error('User does not exist')
-			return
-		elif r.status_code != 200:
-			logger.error(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
-			return
-
-		response = json.loads(r.text)
-		if not response['data']:
-			logger.error('User has no posts')
-			return
-		yield from self._response_to_items(response)
-		if self._mode == 'posts':
-			before = response['data'][-1]['published_at']
-		elif self._mode in ('comments', 'media'):
-			before = 30
-
-		while True:
-			logger.info('Retrieving next page')
-			r = self._get(f'{self._baseUrl}{self._beforeGlue}before={before}', headers = headers)
-			if r.status_code != 200:
-				logger.error(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
-				return
-			response = json.loads(r.text)
-			yield from self._response_to_items(response)
-			if response['no-more'] or not response['data']:
-				# Last page
-				return
-			if self._mode == 'posts':
-				before = response['data'][-1]['published_at']
-			elif self._mode in ('comments', 'media'):
-				before += 30
-			time.sleep(1) # Gab's API is pretty quick but doesn't like being hammered...
-
-	@classmethod
-	def setup_parser(cls, subparser):
-		subparser.add_argument('username', help = 'A Gab username')
-
-
-class GabUserPostsScraper(GabUserCommonScraper):
-	name = 'gab-user'
-
-	@classmethod
-	def from_args(cls, args):
-		return cls('posts', args.username, retries = args.retries)
-
-
-class GabUserCommentsScraper(GabUserCommonScraper):
-	name = 'gab-user-comments'
-
-	@classmethod
-	def from_args(cls, args):
-		return cls('comments', args.username, retries = args.retries)
-
-
-class GabUserMediaScraper(GabUserCommonScraper):
-	name = 'gab-user-media'
-
-	@classmethod
-	def from_args(cls, args):
-		return cls('media', args.username, retries = args.retries)