#!/usr/bin/env python3 # `warc-peek.py` is a small script to help looking into gzipped WARC files without decompressing the entire file. # It searches a window in the file for gzip's magic bytes `1F 8B`, attempts decompression, compares the result to the expected beginning of a WARC record, and prints all valid offsets. # These can then be used with e.g. `tail` and `zless` to actually look at the records. # # Usage: warc-peek.py WARCFILE OFFSET LENGTH # Opens `WARCFILE`, reads `LENGTH` bytes starting at `OFFSET` (zero-based), and prints valid WARC record offsets to stdout (one integer per line). # # Caveats # - This script only works with WARCs in which each record is compressed individually. # This is what the specification recommends and what most tools should generate by default, but there definitely exist valid compressed WARCs which can't be processed in this way. # - When you want to use `tail -c+OFFSET WARCFILE | zless` to look at the records, keep in mind that `tail` uses one-based indices, i.e. you will have to add one to the indices returned by `warc-peek.py`. # - `warc-peek.py` will miss valid record offsets in the last 512 bytes of the window. # This is because a certain length of the compressed data is necessary to be able to decompress it. `warc-peek.py` uses 512 bytes for this and will therefore # not attempt decompression when `1F 8B` is found in the last 512 bytes of the window. You can increase `LENGTH` to compensate for this if necessary. import argparse import io import logging import zlib logger = logging.getLogger('warc-peek') def finditer(b, sub): pos = 0 while True: pos = b.find(sub, pos) if pos < 0: break yield pos pos += 1 def find_offsets(warcfile, offset, length): with open(warcfile, 'rb') as fp: if offset >= 0: fp.seek(offset) else: # Negative offset: go back from EOF and fix offset for correct output fp.seek(0, io.SEEK_END) size = fp.tell() fp.seek(offset, io.SEEK_END) offset = size + offset buffer = fp.read(length) logger.debug('Buffer length: {:d}'.format(len(buffer))) for pos in finditer(buffer, b'\x1f\x8b'): logger.debug('Trying relative offset {:d}'.format(pos)) if pos > len(buffer) - 512: # 512 bytes might be a bit too much, but at least it ensures that the decompression will work. break try: dec = zlib.decompressobj(zlib.MAX_WBITS | 32).decompress(buffer[pos:pos+512]) except: continue logger.debug('First 100 bytes of decompressed data: {!r}'.format(dec[:100])) if dec.startswith(b'WARC/1.0\r\n') or dec.startswith(b'WARC/1.1\r\n'): yield offset + pos if __name__ == '__main__': parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument('--debug', action = 'store_true', help = 'Enable debug output') parser.add_argument('warcfile', help = 'A .warc.gz file') parser.add_argument('offset', type = int, help = 'Zero-based byte offset of the window') parser.add_argument('length', type = int, help = 'Length in bytes of the window') args = parser.parse_args() if args.debug: logging.basicConfig( format = '{asctime} {levelname} {name} {message}', style = '{', level = logging.DEBUG, ) for offset in find_offsets(args.warcfile, args.offset, args.length): print(offset)