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tox_profile
Read and manipulate tox profile files. It started as a simple script from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30901873/what-format-are-tox-files-stored-in
tox_savefile.py reads a Tox profile and prints to stderr various
things that it finds. Then can write what it found in JSON/YAML/REPR/PPRINT
to a file. It can also test the nodes in a profile using nmap.
It can also download, select, or test nodes in a DHTnode.json file.
It can also decrypt a profile, saving the output to a file.
It can also edit a profile, changing a few select fields. Later it can be extended to edit more crucial fields.
Usage
Reads a tox profile and prints out information on what's in there to stderr. Call it with one argument, the filename of the profile for the decrypt, edit or info commands, or the filename of the nodes file for the nodes command.
4 commands are supported:
--command decryptdecrypts the profile and writes to the result to stdout--command infoprints info about what's in the Tox profile to stderr--command nodesassumes you are reading a json nodes file instead of a profile--command editedits the profile and writes to the result to a file.
usage: tox_savefile.py [-h] [--output OUTPUT]
[--command info|decrypt|nodes|edit]
[--indent INDENT]
[--info info|repr|yaml|json|pprint|nmap_udp|nmap_tcp]
[--nodes select_tcp|select_udp|select_version|nmap_tcp|nmap_udp]
[--edit help|section,num,key,val]
[--download_nodes_url DOWNLOAD_NODES_URL]
profile
Positional arguments:
profile tox profile file - may be encrypted
Optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--command {info,decrypt,nodes,edit}
Action command - default: info
--output OUTPUT Destination for info/decrypt/nodes - defaults to stdout
--info info|repr|yaml|json|pprint|nmap_udp|nmap_tcp
Format for info command
--nodes select_tcp|select_udp|select_version|nmap_tcp|nmap_udp
Action for nodes command (requires jq)
--edit help|section,num,key,val
--indent INDENT Indent for yaml/json/pprint
--download_nodes_url DOWNLOAD_NODES_URL
--command info
info will output the profile on stdout, or to a file with --output
Choose one of {info,repr,yaml,json,pprint,save}
for the format for info command.
Choose one of {nmap_udp,nmap_tcp}
to run tests using nmap for the DHT and TCP_RELAY
sections of the profile. Reguires nmap and uses sudo.
Saving a copy
The code now can generate a saved copy of the profile as it parses the profile.
Use the command --command info --info save with --output
and a filename, to process the file with info to stderr, and it will
save an copy of the file to the --output (unencrypted).
It may be shorter than the original profile by up to 512 bytes, as the original toxic profile is padded at the end with nulls (or maybe in the decryption).
--command nodes
Takes a DHTnodes.json file as an argument.
Choose one of {select_tcp,select_udp,select_version}
for --nodes to select TCP nodes, UDP nodes,
or nodes with the latest version. Requires jq.
Choose one of {nmap_tcp,nmap_udp} to run tests using nmap
for the status_tcp==True and status_udp==True nodes.
Reguires nmap and uses sudo.
--command decrypt
Decrypt a profile, with --output to a filename.
--command edit
The code now can generate an edited copy of the profile.
Use the command --command edit --edit section,num,key,val with
--output and a filename, to process the file with info to stderr,
and it will save an copy of the edited file to the
--output file (unencrypted). There's not much editing yet; give
--command edit --edit help to get a list of what Available Sections,
and Supported Quads (section,num,key,type) that can be edited.
Currently it is:
NAME,.,Nick_name,str
STATUSMESSAGE,.,Status_message,str
STATUS,.,Online_status,int
The num field is to accomodate sections that have lists:
.is a placeholder for sections that don't have lists.<int>is for the nth element of the list, zero-based.*is for all elements of the list.
Requirements
If you want to read encrypted profiles, you need to download
toxygen to deal with encrypted tox files, from:
https://git.plastiras.org/emdee/toxygen_wrapper
Just put the toxygen/toxygen directory on your PYTHONPATH
You also need to link your libtoxcore.so and libtoxav.so
and libtoxencryptsave.so into wrapper/../libs/
Link all 3 from libtoxcore.so files if you have only libtoxcore.so
If you want to read the GROUPS section, you need Python msgpack: https://pypi.org/project/msgpack/
If you want to write in YAML, you need Python yaml: https://pypi.org/project/PyYAML/
If you have coloredlogs installed it will make use of it: https://pypi.org/project/coloredlogs/
For the select and nmap commands, the jq utility is
required. It's available in most distros, or https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
For the nmap commands, the nmap utility is
required. It's available in most distros, or https://nmap.org/
Future Directions
This has not been tested on Windwoes, but is should be simple to fix.
Because it's written in Python it is easy to extend to, for example, rekeying a profile when copying a profile to a new device: https://git.plastiras.org/emdee/tox_profile/wiki/MultiDevice-Announcements-POC
Specification
There is a copy of the Tox spec in the repo - it is missing any description of the groups section.