INTRO:
aredn_info.py does two things:
1. It reads all sysinfo.json?link_info=1&hosts=1 pages available on a
given network and
2. creates output files that synthesize the information.
Some limitations:
* Some nodes have old firmwares with API version 1.0 or 1.1. In these cases
some information about the nodes is not available.
* Currently, the API mixes Nodes with LAN Hostnames. To save some time
trying to download a non-existent page from a LAN Hostname, I added a
lan_hostnames.txt file with a list of known LAN Hostnames to ignore.
The script will NOT crash if it tries to reach a LAN Hostname, but it
will try to download it for 30 seconds before giving up.
See https://arednmesh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arednHow-toGuides/devtools.html
for details of the API used.
CHANGE LOG:
* v2023.11.28
- Updated syntax to modern formatted string literals.
* v2023.11.21
- Added an alternative script_path for use on Windows.
* v2023.11.14
- Fixed a minor bug to ensure that num_of_threads is an integer.
* v2023.11.13
- Fixed minor bug where some of the connections in the Diagrams_Net.txt
file were duplicated resulting in nodes with two lines in the diagram.
The issue was that I had the api_v as the forth element of topo and
topo_inv, which meant that the condition if tuple in topo_inv[0:i]
wasn't catching duplicates if they had different API versions.
- Added input() functions a the beginning so user can enter a
different starting node than va7fi-hapac3-1 and a number of
concurrent downloads.
- Added a line at the top of Diagrams_Net.txt and Topology_List.txt
with the number of nodes and connections found.
* v2023.11.12
- Re-wrote the whole thing from scratch to use the json files from the
API instead of scraping the html
- Renamed it aredn_info.py and consolidated all the code under one file.
- Still a few things to cleanup and add, but it's functional and much
faster than the previous versions.
- Note that some information might be missing if the API version <= 1.1
* v2023.10.28b
- Removed urls[] list so that the code is more general.
* v2023.10.28a
- Modified read_pages.py so that it can read the new layout of the
Mesh Status page.
- Fixed a small bug in read_pages.py where code was expecting
plural neibhors and nodes instead of neibhor* and node*
(lines 175 and 179)
- Also updated my node URL on lines 39 and 40
* v2021.12.20
- Broke the code into different files.
* v2021.12.16:
- Code cleanup. No new features.
* v2021.12.14:
- Set maximum number of concurrent threads to 30 to optimize the speed.
- This version can take less than 10 seconds to process 85 stations.
- Added two csv output pages.
* v2021.12.13:
- Code cleanup. No new features.
* v2021.12.10:
- Uses threading to download all status pages into pages[].
- It increased the speed by a factor of 5 to 10.
* v2021.12.05:
- Uses a list nodes2[] to organize information, which can then easily
be formatted different ways.
- Added format for diagrams.net and re-wrote flowchart.fun
- Added Human Readable output list.
* v2021.11.12:
- First working draft.
- Takes about 3 minutes to process 85 stations.