Add Golang package

.github/workflows/ci-validation.yml

@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ jobs:
       - run: py.test -vv
       - run: python3 validate.py  
       - run: php validate.php
+      - run: go test

README.md

@@ -34,6 +34,40 @@ Each `pattern` is a regular expression. It should work out-of-the-box wih your f
 * JavaScript: `if (RegExp(entry.pattern).test(req.headers['user-agent']) { ... }`
 * PHP: add a slash before and after the pattern: `if (preg_match('/'.$entry['pattern'].'/', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])): ...`
 * Python: `if re.search(entry['pattern'], ua): ...`
+* Go: use [this package](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/monperrus/crawler-user-agents),
+  it provides global variable `Crawlers` (it is synchronized with `crawler-user-agents.json`),
+  functions `IsCrawler` and `MatchingCrawlers`.
+
+Example of Go program:
+
+```go
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"github.com/monperrus/crawler-user-agents"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	userAgent := "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Discordbot/2.0; +https://discordapp.com)"
+
+	isCrawler := agents.IsCrawler(userAgent)
+	fmt.Println("isCrawler:", isCrawler)
+
+	indices := agents.MatchingCrawlers(userAgent)
+	fmt.Println("crawlers' indices:", indices)
+	fmt.Println("crawler' URL:", agents.Crawlers[indices[0]].URL)
+}
+```
+
+Output:
+
+```
+isCrawler: true
+crawlers' indices: [237]
+crawler' URL: https://discordapp.com
+```
 
 ## Contributing
 
@@ -66,7 +100,6 @@ There are a few wrapper libraries that use this data to detect bots:
  * [Voight-Kampff](https://github.com/biola/Voight-Kampff) (Ruby)
  * [isbot](https://github.com/Hentioe/isbot) (Ruby)
  * [crawlers](https://github.com/Olical/crawlers) (Clojure)
- * [crawlerflagger](https://godoc.org/go.kelfa.io/kelfa/pkg/crawlerflagger) (Go)
  * [isBot](https://github.com/omrilotan/isbot) (Node.JS)
 
 Other systems for spotting robots, crawlers, and spiders that you may want to consider are:

go.mod

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+module github.com/monperrus/crawler-user-agents
+
+go 1.19

validate.go

@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+package agents
+
+import (
+	_ "embed"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"regexp"
+	"time"
+)
+
+//go:embed crawler-user-agents.json
+var crawlersJson []byte
+
+// Crawler contains information about one crawler.
+type Crawler struct {
+	// Regexp of User Agent of the crawler.
+	Pattern string `json:"pattern"`
+
+	// Discovery date.
+	AdditionDate time.Time `json:"addition_date"`
+
+	// Official url of the robot.
+	URL string `json:"url"`
+
+	// Examples of full User Agent strings.
+	Instances []string `json:"instances"`
+}
+
+// Private time needed to convert addition_date from/to the format used in JSON.
+type jsonCrawler struct {
+	Pattern      string   `json:"pattern"`
+	AdditionDate string   `json:"addition_date"`
+	URL          string   `json:"url"`
+	Instances    []string `json:"instances"`
+}
+
+const timeLayout = "2006/01/02"
+
+func (c Crawler) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	jc := jsonCrawler{
+		Pattern:      c.Pattern,
+		AdditionDate: c.AdditionDate.Format(timeLayout),
+		URL:          c.URL,
+		Instances:    c.Instances,
+	}
+	return json.Marshal(jc)
+}
+
+func (c *Crawler) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
+	var jc jsonCrawler
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(b, &jc); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	c.Pattern = jc.Pattern
+	c.URL = jc.URL
+	c.Instances = jc.Instances
+
+	if c.Pattern == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("empty pattern in record %s", string(b))
+	}
+
+	if jc.AdditionDate != "" {
+		tim, err := time.ParseInLocation(timeLayout, jc.AdditionDate, time.UTC)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		c.AdditionDate = tim
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// The list of crawlers, built from contents of crawler-user-agents.json.
+var Crawlers = func() []Crawler {
+	var crawlers []Crawler
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(crawlersJson, &crawlers); err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	return crawlers
+}()
+
+var regexps = func() []*regexp.Regexp {
+	regexps := make([]*regexp.Regexp, len(Crawlers))
+	for i, crawler := range Crawlers {
+		regexps[i] = regexp.MustCompile(crawler.Pattern)
+	}
+	return regexps
+}()
+
+// Returns if User Agent string matches any of crawler patterns.
+func IsCrawler(userAgent string) bool {
+	for _, re := range regexps {
+		if re.MatchString(userAgent) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// Finds all crawlers matching the User Agent and returns the list of their indices in Crawlers.
+func MatchingCrawlers(userAgent string) []int {
+	indices := []int{}
+	for i, re := range regexps {
+		if re.MatchString(userAgent) {
+			indices = append(indices, i)
+		}
+	}
+	return indices
+}

validate_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+package agents
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func contains(list []int, value int) bool {
+	for _, elem := range list {
+		if elem == value {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func TestPatterns(t *testing.T) {
+	// Loading all crawlers with go:embed
+	// some validation happens in UnmarshalJSON.
+	allCrawlers := Crawlers
+
+	// There are at least 10 crawlers.
+	if len(allCrawlers) < 10 {
+		t.Errorf("Number of crawlers must be at least 10, got %d.", len(allCrawlers))
+	}
+
+	if IsCrawler(browserUA) {
+		t.Errorf("Browser UA %q was detected as a crawler.", browserUA)
+	}
+	if len(MatchingCrawlers(browserUA)) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("MatchingCrawlers found crawlers matching Browser UA %q.", browserUA)
+	}
+
+	for i, crawler := range allCrawlers {
+		t.Run(crawler.Pattern, func(t *testing.T) {
+			fmt.Println(crawler.Pattern)
+
+			for _, instance := range crawler.Instances {
+				if !IsCrawler(instance) {
+					t.Errorf("Instance %q is not detected as a crawler.", instance)
+				}
+				hits := MatchingCrawlers(instance)
+				if !contains(hits, i) {
+					t.Errorf("Crawler with index %d (pattern %q) is not in the list returned by MatchingCrawlers(%q): %v.", i, crawler.Pattern, instance, hits)
+				}
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFalseNegatives(t *testing.T) {
+	const browsersURL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microlinkhq/top-user-agents/master/src/index.json"
+	resp, err := http.Get(browsersURL)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Failed to fetch the list of browser User Agents from %s: %v.", browsersURL, err)
+	}
+
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		if err := resp.Body.Close(); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	})
+
+	var browsers []string
+	if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&browsers); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Failed to parse the list of browser User Agents: %v.", err)
+	}
+
+	for _, userAgent := range browsers {
+		if IsCrawler(userAgent) {
+			t.Errorf("Browser User Agent %q is recognized as a crawler.", userAgent)
+		}
+		indices := MatchingCrawlers(userAgent)
+		if len(indices) != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("Browser User Agent %q matches with crawlers %v.", userAgent, indices)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+const (
+	crawlerUA = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36 Google (+https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/"
+	browserUA = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) obsidian/1.5.3 Chrome/114.0.5735.289 Electron/25.8.1 Safari/537.36"
+)
+
+func BenchmarkIsCrawlerPositive(b *testing.B) {
+	b.SetBytes(int64(len(crawlerUA)))
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		if !IsCrawler(crawlerUA) {
+			b.Fail()
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func BenchmarkMatchingCrawlersPositive(b *testing.B) {
+	b.SetBytes(int64(len(crawlerUA)))
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		if len(MatchingCrawlers(crawlerUA)) == 0 {
+			b.Fail()
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func BenchmarkIsCrawlerNegative(b *testing.B) {
+	b.SetBytes(int64(len(browserUA)))
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		if IsCrawler(browserUA) {
+			b.Fail()
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func BenchmarkMatchingCrawlersNegative(b *testing.B) {
+	b.SetBytes(int64(len(browserUA)))
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		if len(MatchingCrawlers(browserUA)) != 0 {
+			b.Fail()
+		}
+	}
+}