npm package discovery and stats viewer.

Discover Tips

  • General search

    [free text search, go nuts!]

  • Package details

    pkg:[package-name]

  • User packages

    @[username]

Sponsor

Optimize Toolset

I’ve always been into building performant and accessible sites, but lately I’ve been taking it extremely seriously. So much so that I’ve been building a tool to help me optimize and monitor the sites that I build to make sure that I’m making an attempt to offer the best experience to those who visit them. If you’re into performant, accessible and SEO friendly sites, you might like it too! You can check it out at Optimize Toolset.

About

Hi, 👋, I’m Ryan Hefner  and I built this site for me, and you! The goal of this site was to provide an easy way for me to check the stats on my npm packages, both for prioritizing issues and updates, and to give me a little kick in the pants to keep up on stuff.

As I was building it, I realized that I was actually using the tool to build the tool, and figured I might as well put this out there and hopefully others will find it to be a fast and useful way to search and browse npm packages as I have.

If you’re interested in other things I’m working on, follow me on Twitter or check out the open source projects I’ve been publishing on GitHub.

I am also working on a Twitter bot for this site to tweet the most popular, newest, random packages from npm. Please follow that account now and it will start sending out packages soon–ish.

Open Software & Tools

This site wouldn’t be possible without the immense generosity and tireless efforts from the people who make contributions to the world and share their work via open source initiatives. Thank you 🙏

© 2024 – Pkg Stats / Ryan Hefner

anon

v0.1.2

Published

Tweet anonymous edits to Wikipedia from IP ranges.

Downloads

19

Vulnerabilities

Powered byPowered by Snyk
  • 0High
  • 0Medium
  • 0Low

Links

Maintainers

edsuedsu

Keywords

Readme

anon

Build Status Gitter chat

anon will watch Wikipedia for anonymous edits from a set of named IP ranges and will tweet when it notices one. It was inspired by @parliamentedits and was used to make @congressedits available until the account was suspended by Twitter in 2018. An archive of the @congressedits tweets up until that point is available. For more about why the @congressedits accounts was suspended see this article from The Wikipedian. anon is now being used by a community of users to post selected Wikipedia edits to Twitter.

anon can also send updates on GNU Social / Mastodon (see below)

Run

To run anon you will need to:

  1. install Node (v6 or higher)
  2. git clone https://github.com/edsu/anon.git
  3. cd anon
  4. npm install
  5. cp config.json.template config.json
  6. add twitter credentials for your bot to config.json (make sure the Twitter app you create has read/write permission so it can tweet)
  7. add IP ranges/names to config.json
  8. modify status template if desired
  9. `./anon.js

IP Ranges

You will notice in the example config.json.template that you can configure ip address ranges using a netmask:

"143.231.0.0/16"

or with an array of start/end IP addresses:

["143.231.0.0", "143.231.255.255"]

These two are equivalent, but the former is a bit faster, and easier to read. The latter is convenient if your range is difficult to express using a netmask.

If you would like your configuration file to reference the IP addresses in the external file just use the filename. So instead of:

{
  "nick": "anon1234",
  "accounts": [
    {
      "consumer_key": "",
      "consumer_secret": "",
      "access_token": "",
      "access_token_secret": "",
      "template": "{{page}} Wikipedia article edited anonymously from {{name}} {{&url}}",
      "ranges": {
        "Home Network": [
          ["192.168.1.1", "192.168.255.255"]
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

you would have:

{
  "nick": "anon1234",
  "accounts": [
    {
      "consumer_key": "",
      "consumer_secret": "",
      "access_token": "",
      "access_token_secret": "",
      "template": "{{page}} Wikipedia article edited anonymously from {{name}} {{&url}}",
      "ranges": "ranges.json"
    }
  ]
}

Mastodon

If you want to send messages on Mastodon you'll need to create an application and then get an access token for the account you want to send on. A utility is included to help you do that:

npm run mastodon

Debugging

If you would like to test without tweeting you can run anon with the --noop flag, which will cause the tweet to be written to the console but not actually sent to Twitter.

./anon.js --noop

If you would like to see all the change activity (URLs for each change) to test that it is actually listening, use the --verbose flag:

./anon.js --verbose

Alternate Configuration Files

By default anon will look for a config.json file in your current working directory. If you would like to specify the location of the configuration file, use the --config parameter:

./anon.js --config test.config

With Docker

Build image

  1. git clone the repo
  2. cd anon
  3. docker build . -t anon

Run image

  1. create your config.json file
  2. docker run -v $PWD/config.json:/opt/anon/config.json anon

Develop

There is not much to anon but there is a small test suite, which might come in handy if you want to add functionality.

npm test

Which Wikipedias?

anon uses the wikichanges module to listen to 38 language Wikipedias. wikichanges achieves this by logging in to the Wikimedia IRC server and listening to the recent changes channels for each Wikipedia. So if you plan on running wikichanges be sure your network supports IRC (it can sometimes be blocked).

Here are the Wikipedias that it currently supports:

Additionally, the following miscellaneous Wikimedia sites:

If you would like to have another one added please add a ticket to the wikichanges issue tracker.

Community

Below is a list of known anon instances. Please feel free to add, in an alphabetic order, your own by sending a pull request.

License:

  • CC0 public domain dedication