nllz / orgprobe

A linux command-line probe that checks whether a website is blocked by filters and reports results back to the censorship monitoring project middleware.

OrgProbe

A python probe using the OpenRightsGroup/BlockingMiddleware API. Also supports AMQP.

This is work in progress, although the HTTP mode has been pretty well tested and has submitted over 8,000 results.

Requires the following libraries:

requests amqplib (when using AMQP mode).

The rest is standard library stuff.

Still todo:

• setup.py

To run:

cd /path/above/checkout

python -m OrgProbe -c /path/to/config

An example config file is included. You'll need to use the new-user signup and probe registration calls in the API to get credentials. The registration routine built into OrgProbe is alpha-quality at best.

If you're running the Blocking-Middleware Vagrant VM, you can start OrgProbe with the config.vagrant.ini config file, which will start a nice fast HTTP-mode poll against the FakeISP set up in the VM database.