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#!/usr/bin/env perl
# AP-Client: CLI-based client / toolbox for ActivityPub
# Copyright © 2020-2023 AP-Client Authors <https://hacktivis.me/git/ap-client/>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
use strict;
use utf8;
use open ":std", ":encoding(UTF-8)";
our $VERSION = 'v0.1.4';
use JSON;
use App::ActivityPubClient qw(print_object);
=head1 NAME
ap-fetch - Fetch ActivityStream object, optionally pretty printing it
=head1 SYNOPSIS
B<ap-fetch> [-r|-j|-u <user:pass>] <URI>
=head1 DESCRIPTION
ap-fetch fetches an URI, decodes it as an ActivityStream object.
=over 4
=item B<-j>
Pipe into jq(1)
=item B<-r>
Raw output, print server's output without any decoding
=item B<-u user:pass>
Pass username and password for HTTP Basic Auth.
=back
=head1 LICENSE
BSD-3-Clause
=cut
my %options = ();
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
getopts("rju:", \%options);
if ($#ARGV != 0) {
print "usage: ap-fetch.pl [-r|-j|-u user:pass] <url>\n";
print " -j Pipe into jq(1)\n";
print " -r Raw output\n";
print " -u user:pass HTTP Basic Auth credentials\n";
print
"By default, when -j and -r are absent it pipes the data into ap-represent.pl.\n";
exit 1;
}
$ua->agent("AP-Client fetch <https://hacktivis.me/git/ap-client/>");
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $ARGV[0]);
$req->header('Accept' => 'application/activity+json');
if (defined $options{u}) {
my ($user, $password) = split(/:/, $options{u});
$req->authorization_basic($user, $password);
}
my $res = $ua->request($req);
if ($res->is_success) {
my $content_type = $res->header("Content-Type");
my $content_match = qr{^application/([^+]*\+)?json(; .*)?};
if ($content_type =~ $content_match) {
if (defined $options{r}) {
print $res->content;
} elsif (defined $options{j}) {
open(my $pipe_out, '|-', 'jq .')
or die "Couldn't open a pipe into jq: $!";
print $pipe_out $res->content;
close($pipe_out);
} else {
my $object = decode_json($res->content);
print_object(1, $object);
print "\n";
}
} else {
print STDERR "Got \"$content_type\" instead of \"$content_match\"\n";
exit 1;
}
} else {
print STDERR "Got ", $res->status_line, " instead of 2xx\n";
exit 1;
}