PDF File change detection - Initial PDF fetcher support with basic text extraction (#1244)

Dockerfile

@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ ARG CRYPTOGRAPHY_DONT_BUILD_RUST=1
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
     g++ \
     gcc \
+    # For pdftohtml
+    poppler-utils \
     libc-dev \
     libffi-dev \
     libjpeg-dev \
@@ -65,7 +67,6 @@ COPY changedetectionio /app/changedetectionio
 # The eventlet server wrapper
 COPY changedetection.py /app/changedetection.py
 
-
 WORKDIR /app
 
 CMD [ "python", "./changedetection.py" , "-d", "/datastore"]

README.md

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Requires Playwright to be enabled.
 
 - Products and services have a change in pricing
 - _Out of stock notification_ and _Back In stock notification_
+- Monitor and track PDF file changes, know when a PDF file has text changes.
 - Governmental department updates (changes are often only on their websites)
 - New software releases, security advisories when you're not on their mailing list.
 - Festivals with changes
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ _Need an actual Chrome runner with Javascript support? We support fetching via W
 - Lots of trigger filters, such as "Trigger on text", "Remove text by selector", "Ignore text", "Extract text", also using regular-expressions!
 - Target elements with xPath and CSS Selectors, Easily monitor complex JSON with JSONPath or jq
 - Switch between fast non-JS and Chrome JS based "fetchers"
+- Track changes in PDF files (Monitor text changed in the PDF, Also monitor PDF filesize and checksums)
 - Easily specify how often a site should be checked
 - Execute JS before extracting text (Good for logging in, see examples in the UI!)
 - Override Request Headers, Specify `POST` or `GET` and other methods

changedetectionio/content_fetcher.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import hashlib
 from abc import abstractmethod
 import chardet
 import json
@@ -116,7 +117,8 @@ class Fetcher():
             request_body,
             request_method,
             ignore_status_codes=False,
-            current_include_filters=None):
+            current_include_filters=None,
+            is_binary=False):
         # Should set self.error, self.status_code and self.content
         pass
 
@@ -267,7 +269,8 @@ class base_html_playwright(Fetcher):
             request_body,
             request_method,
             ignore_status_codes=False,
-            current_include_filters=None):
+            current_include_filters=None,
+            is_binary=False):
 
         from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
         import playwright._impl._api_types
@@ -453,7 +456,8 @@ class base_html_webdriver(Fetcher):
             request_body,
             request_method,
             ignore_status_codes=False,
-            current_include_filters=None):
+            current_include_filters=None,
+            is_binary=False):
 
         from selenium import webdriver
         from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
@@ -528,7 +532,8 @@ class html_requests(Fetcher):
             request_body,
             request_method,
             ignore_status_codes=False,
-            current_include_filters=None):
+            current_include_filters=None,
+            is_binary=False):
 
         # Make requests use a more modern looking user-agent
         if not 'User-Agent' in request_headers:
@@ -558,10 +563,12 @@ class html_requests(Fetcher):
         # For example - some sites don't tell us it's utf-8, but return utf-8 content
         # This seems to not occur when using webdriver/selenium, it seems to detect the text encoding more reliably.
         # https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1604 good info about requests encoding detection
-        if not r.headers.get('content-type') or not 'charset=' in r.headers.get('content-type'):
+        if not is_binary:
-            encoding = chardet.detect(r.content)['encoding']
+            # Don't run this for PDF (and requests identified as binary) takes a _long_ time
-            if encoding:
+            if not r.headers.get('content-type') or not 'charset=' in r.headers.get('content-type'):
-                r.encoding = encoding
+                encoding = chardet.detect(r.content)['encoding']
+                if encoding:
+                    r.encoding = encoding
 
         if not r.content or not len(r.content):
             raise EmptyReply(url=url, status_code=r.status_code)
@@ -573,8 +580,14 @@ class html_requests(Fetcher):
             raise Non200ErrorCodeReceived(url=url, status_code=r.status_code, page_html=r.text)
 
         self.status_code = r.status_code
-        self.content = r.text
+        if is_binary:
+            # Binary files just return their checksum until we add something smarter
+            self.content = hashlib.md5(r.content).hexdigest()
+        else:
+            self.content = r.text
+
         self.headers = r.headers
+        self.raw_content = r.content
 
 
 # Decide which is the 'real' HTML webdriver, this is more a system wide config

changedetectionio/fetch_site_status.py

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ class FilterNotFoundInResponse(ValueError):
     def __init__(self, msg):
         ValueError.__init__(self, msg)
 
+class PDFToHTMLToolNotFound(ValueError):
+    def __init__(self, msg):
+        ValueError.__init__(self, msg)
+
 
 # Some common stuff here that can be moved to a base class
 # (set_proxy_from_list)
@@ -87,7 +91,7 @@ class perform_site_check():
             is_source = True
 
         # Pluggable content fetcher
-        prefer_backend = watch.get('fetch_backend')
+        prefer_backend = watch.get_fetch_backend
         if hasattr(content_fetcher, prefer_backend):
             klass = getattr(content_fetcher, prefer_backend)
         else:
@@ -117,12 +121,18 @@ class perform_site_check():
         if watch.get('webdriver_js_execute_code') is not None and watch.get('webdriver_js_execute_code').strip():
             fetcher.webdriver_js_execute_code = watch.get('webdriver_js_execute_code')
 
-        fetcher.run(url, timeout, request_headers, request_body, request_method, ignore_status_codes, watch.get('include_filters'))
+        # requests for PDF's, images etc should be passwd the is_binary flag
+        is_binary = watch.is_pdf
+
+        fetcher.run(url, timeout, request_headers, request_body, request_method, ignore_status_codes, watch.get('include_filters'), is_binary=is_binary)
         fetcher.quit()
 
         self.screenshot = fetcher.screenshot
         self.xpath_data = fetcher.xpath_data
 
+        # Track the content type
+        update_obj['content_type'] = fetcher.headers.get('Content-Type', '')
+
         # Watches added automatically in the queue manager will skip if its the same checksum as the previous run
         # Saves a lot of CPU
         update_obj['previous_md5_before_filters'] = hashlib.md5(fetcher.content.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
@@ -149,6 +159,31 @@ class perform_site_check():
             is_html = False
             is_json = False
 
+        if watch.is_pdf or 'application/pdf' in fetcher.headers.get('Content-Type', '').lower():
+            from shutil import which
+            tool = os.getenv("PDF_TO_HTML_TOOL", "pdftohtml")
+            if not which(tool):
+                raise PDFToHTMLToolNotFound("Command-line `{}` tool was not found in system PATH, was it installed?".format(tool))
+
+            import subprocess
+            proc = subprocess.Popen(
+                [tool, '-stdout', '-', '-s', 'out.pdf', '-i'],
+                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
+            proc.stdin.write(fetcher.raw_content)
+            proc.stdin.close()
+            fetcher.content = proc.stdout.read().decode('utf-8')
+            proc.wait(timeout=60)
+
+            # Add a little metadata so we know if the file changes (like if an image changes, but the text is the same
+            # @todo may cause problems with non-UTF8?
+            metadata = "<p>Added by changedetection.io: Document checksum - {} Filesize - {} bytes</p>".format(
+                hashlib.md5(fetcher.raw_content).hexdigest().upper(),
+                len(fetcher.content))
+
+            fetcher.content = fetcher.content.replace('</body>', metadata + '</body>')
+
+
         include_filters_rule = deepcopy(watch.get('include_filters', []))
         # include_filters_rule = watch['include_filters']
         subtractive_selectors = watch.get(

changedetectionio/model/Watch.py

@@ -114,6 +114,24 @@ class model(dict):
 
         return ready_url
 
+    @property
+    def get_fetch_backend(self):
+        """
+        Like just using the `fetch_backend` key but there could be some logic
+        :return:
+        """
+        # Maybe also if is_image etc?
+        # This is because chrome/playwright wont render the PDF in the browser and we will just fetch it and use pdf2html to see the text.
+        if self.is_pdf:
+            return 'html_requests'
+
+        return self.get('fetch_backend')
+
+    @property
+    def is_pdf(self):
+        # content_type field is set in the future
+        return '.pdf' in self.get('url', '').lower() or 'pdf' in self.get('content_type', '').lower()
+
     @property
     def label(self):
         # Used for sorting

changedetectionio/static/images/pdf-icon.svg

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
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changedetectionio/templates/watch-overview.html

@@ -89,10 +89,10 @@
                 </td>
                 <td class="title-col inline">{{watch.title if watch.title is not none and watch.title|length > 0 else watch.url}}
                     <a class="external" target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="{{ watch.link.replace('source:','') }}"></a>
-                    <a class="link-spread" href="{{url_for('form_share_put_watch', uuid=watch.uuid)}}"><img style="height: 1em;display:inline-block;" src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='spread.svg')}}" class="icon icon-spread" title="Create a link to share watch config with others" /></a>
+                    <a class="link-spread" href="{{url_for('form_share_put_watch', uuid=watch.uuid)}}"><img style="height: 1em;display:inline-block;  vertical-align: middle;" src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='spread.svg')}}" class="icon icon-spread" title="Create a link to share watch config with others" /></a>
-
-                    {%if watch.fetch_backend == "html_webdriver" %}<img style="height: 1em; display:inline-block;" src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='Google-Chrome-icon.png')}}" title="Using a chrome browser" />{% endif %}
 
+                    {%if watch.get_fetch_backend == "html_webdriver" %}<img style="height: 1em; display:inline-block;" src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='Google-Chrome-icon.png')}}" title="Using a chrome browser" />{% endif %}
+                    {%if watch.is_pdf  %}<img style="height: 1.2em;  vertical-align: middle; display:inline-block;" src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='pdf-icon.svg')}}" title="Converting PDF to text" />{% endif %}
                     {% if watch.last_error is defined and watch.last_error != False %}
                     <div class="fetch-error">{{ watch.last_error }}</div>
                     {% endif %}

changedetectionio/tests/test_pdf.py

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+import time
+from flask import url_for
+from .util import set_original_response, set_modified_response, live_server_setup
+
+sleep_time_for_fetch_thread = 3
+
+# `subtractive_selectors` should still work in `source:` type requests
+def test_fetch_pdf(client, live_server):
+    import shutil
+    shutil.copy("tests/test.pdf", "test-datastore/endpoint-test.pdf")
+
+    live_server_setup(live_server)
+    test_url = url_for('test_pdf_endpoint', _external=True)
+    # Add our URL to the import page
+    res = client.post(
+        url_for("import_page"),
+        data={"urls": test_url},
+        follow_redirects=True
+    )
+
+    assert b"1 Imported" in res.data
+
+    time.sleep(sleep_time_for_fetch_thread)
+    res = client.get(
+        url_for("preview_page", uuid="first"),
+        follow_redirects=True
+    )
+
+    assert b'PDF-1.5' not in res.data
+    assert b'hello world' in res.data
+
+    # So we know if the file changes in other ways
+    import hashlib
+    md5 = hashlib.md5(open("test-datastore/endpoint-test.pdf", 'rb').read()).hexdigest().upper()
+    # We should have one
+    assert len(md5) >0
+    # And it's going to be in the document
+    assert b'Document checksum - '+bytes(str(md5).encode('utf-8')) in res.data

changedetectionio/tests/util.py

@@ -168,5 +168,15 @@ def live_server_setup(live_server):
     def test_return_query():
         return request.query_string
 
+
+    @live_server.app.route('/endpoint-test.pdf')
+    def test_pdf_endpoint():
+
+        # Tried using a global var here but didn't seem to work, so reading from a file instead.
+        with open("test-datastore/endpoint-test.pdf", "rb") as f:
+            resp = make_response(f.read(), 200)
+            resp.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/pdf'
+            return resp
+
     live_server.start()