From 6aee14e4429af38cf5b37f5c8f07cb6531322b08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org>
Date: Dec 26 2021 16:45:44 +0000
Subject: starting on this


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diff --git a/move-between-categories.py b/move-between-categories.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python3 -u
+
+from os import write
+import sys
+import itertools
+import json
+import re
+from pprint import pprint
+
+from apiutils import getconfig, api
+
+TESTING = False
+
+
+def get_category_info(config):
+    categorynames = {}
+    categoryslugs = {}
+
+    categorylist = api(config, f"site.json")['categories']
+
+    for cat in sorted(categorylist, key=lambda item: item['id']):
+        categorynames[cat['id']] = cat['name']
+        categoryslugs[cat['id']] = cat['slug']
+        print(f"{cat['id']:5} {cat['name']}")
+
+    print(categoryslugs.keys())
+    return(categorynames, categoryslugs)
+
+
+def get_fromlist(categorynames, categoryslugs):
+    pass
+
+
+def get_destination(categorynames, categoryslugs):
+    target = input("Enter destination category by number: ").strip()
+    if not target.isnumeric():
+        print("🔣 That's not a number!")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    destination = int(target)
+    print(
+        f"Selected category \"{categorynames[destination]}\" ({categoryslugs[destination]})")
+    print("⚠️ This might be annoying to reverse if it's wrong.")
+    confirm = input("Type the category slug to continue: ").strip()
+    if confirm != categoryslugs[destination]:
+        print("💣 That doesn't match.")
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    print(
+        f"✅ Ok! We'll move everything to 🗃️ \"{categorynames[destination]}\"")
+
+
+def move_between_categories(config, fromlist, destination):
+    """
+
+    new_category = {"category_id": DISCOURSE_ACCEPTED_CATEGORY}
+            move_results = requests.put(
+                f"https://{DISCOURSE}/t/{topic['slug']}/{topic['id']}", json=new_category, headers=HEADERS)
+
+    for category in categorylist:
+
+        sys.stdout.write('🗃️ ')
+        print(f"{category['slug']}", end='')
+
+        if category['slug'] in SKIPLIST:
+            sys.stdout.write('🦘')
+            continue
+
+        # note "none" in the API call -- otherwise,
+        # descends to subcategories
+        next_query = f"c/{category['id']}/none.json"
+
+        while True:
+            topic_page = api(config, next_query)['topic_list']
+            topics = topic_page['topics']
+            sys.stdout.write('📄')
+            for topic in topics:
+                sys.stdout.write('🏷️ ')
+                tags = set(topic['tags'])
+                tags.add(category['slug'])
+                api(config, f"t/{topic['slug']}/{topic['id']}",
+                    method="put", json={"tags": list(tags)})
+            # now, go to the next page, or stop if there isn't one
+            # We want the json version of the page, and we have to
+            # sneak that in before the query'?'
+            try:
+                next_query = f"{topic_page['more_topics_url'].replace('?','.json?')}"
+            except KeyError:
+                break
+    """
+    print("🔚")
+
+
+def main():
+    config = getconfig()
+    (categorynames, categoryslugs) = get_category_info(config)
+    destination = get_destination(categorynames, categoryslugs)
+    fromlist = get_fromlist(categorynames, categoryslugs)
+    move_between_categories(config, fromlist, destination)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()