webfinger

Discover Information About People or Other Entities on the Internet

Description

A good description goes here otherwise CRAN checks fail.

WIP

Definitely a WIP (drop some code for some credit!), and p(sherlocked) ~= 0.7 but it’s been a while since I made a public R package.

What’s Inside The Tin

The following functions are implemented:

Installation

remotes::install_github("hrbrmstr/webfinger")

NOTE: To use the ‘remotes’ install options you will need to have the {remotes} package installed.

Usage

library(webfinger)

# current version
packageVersion("webfinger")
## [1] '0.1.0'

Basic acct usage:

webfinger("acct:hrbrmstr@rud.is")
## $subject
## [1] "hrbrmstr@rud.is"
## 
## $aliases
## [1] "https://rud.is/b/author/hrbrmstr/"       "https://mastodon.social/@hrbrmstr"      
## [3] "https://mastodon.social/users/hrbrmstr"  "https://infosec.exchange/@hrbrmstr"     
## [5] "https://infosec.exchange/users/hrbrmstr"
## 
## $links
##                                     rel                      type                              href
## 1                                  self application/activity+json https://rud.is/b/author/hrbrmstr/
## 2 http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page                 text/html https://rud.is/b/author/hrbrmstr/
## 
## attr(,"class")
## [1] "webfinger" "list"

webfinger("acct:hrbrmstr@infosec.exchange")
## $subject
## [1] "acct:hrbrmstr@infosec.exchange"
## 
## $aliases
## [1] "https://infosec.exchange/@hrbrmstr"      "https://infosec.exchange/users/hrbrmstr"
## 
## $links
##                                       rel                      type                                    href
## 1   http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page                 text/html      https://infosec.exchange/@hrbrmstr
## 2                                    self application/activity+json https://infosec.exchange/users/hrbrmstr
## 3 http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe                      <NA>                                    <NA>
##                                                   template
## 1                                                     <NA>
## 2                                                     <NA>
## 3 https://infosec.exchange/authorize_interaction?uri={uri}
## 
## attr(,"class")
## [1] "webfinger" "list"

Some endpoints are friendlier than others (but you should generally prepend acct: to be safe):

webfinger("hrbrmstr@mastodon.social")
## $subject
## [1] "acct:hrbrmstr@mastodon.social"
## 
## $aliases
## [1] "https://mastodon.social/@hrbrmstr"      "https://mastodon.social/users/hrbrmstr"
## 
## $links
##                                       rel                      type                                   href
## 1   http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page                 text/html      https://mastodon.social/@hrbrmstr
## 2                                    self application/activity+json https://mastodon.social/users/hrbrmstr
## 3 http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe                      <NA>                                   <NA>
##                                                  template
## 1                                                    <NA>
## 2                                                    <NA>
## 3 https://mastodon.social/authorize_interaction?uri={uri}
## 
## attr(,"class")
## [1] "webfinger" "list"

And, there exists ‘proxy’ webfinger services like this one for the bird site:

wf("acct:hrbrmstr@twitter.com", host = "twitter-webfinger.appspot.com")
## $subject
## [1] "hrbrmstr@twitter.com"
## 
## $links
##                           rel                                                                          href
## 1 http://webfist.org/spec/rel https://twitter-webfinger.appspot.com/user.json?uri=acct:hrbrmstr@twitter.com
## 
## attr(,"class")
## [1] "webfinger" "list"

webfinger Metrics

Lang	# Files	(%)	LoC	(%)	Blank lines	(%)	# Lines	(%)
R	4	0.4	43	0.39	14	0.19	60	0.31
Rmd	1	0.1	12	0.11	22	0.31	38	0.19
SUM	5	0.5	55	0.50	36	0.50	98	0.50

clock Package Metrics for webfinger