stardust_cookie_cutter_core

Stardust Cookie Cutter core library

This repository contains the logic that powers the Stardust Cookie Cutter.

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Overview

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The logic is located in ./src/logic.ts. There are two main functions available: checkProvider() and executeLogic(). The first one contains pre-defined element ids and class names for commonly used cookie pop-ups. This ensures faster closing times and that the pop-up is correctly closed on popular websites. The executeLogic() function implements a sequence of characteristic checks on all potential HTML elements to find the pop-up.

Those two functions are used in the Stardust Cookie Cutter extension. To simulate a similar a behaviour, this project uses Puppeteer to inject the functions into the browser context and show the execution in a Chromium-based browser window.

Getting Started

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1. Installation

Requirements

• Node >=15.0.0

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/strdst-org/stardust_core.git
cd stardust_core

Install dependencies

Run npm install

2. Start

Run npm run start -- [options]

The available options are -u, --url and -t, --timeout.

The --url determines which websites to open and the --timeout parameter determines how long to keep the browser window open (in milliseconds).

Example:

npm run start -- -u https://www.stardustnetwork.com --timeout 5000

The previous example opens a web browser at the Stardust homepage, tries to close the cookie pop-up and keeps the browser window open for 5 seconds.

3. Test

The testing framework is still experimental. The general idea is to run the logic on given websites and test if the correct pop-up was selected. Currently, there is only two websites included in the tests and the tests do not include closing pop-ups in iframes.

To run the tests, run

npm run test

This will run all the tests specified in the logic.test.js file in the ./tests folder. No browser window will be opened but rather it is tested whether the correct element was clicked.

Contributing

How to contribute

1. Fork stardust_core
2. Make your changes and test them sufficiently
3. Create commits to a separate branch
4. Push your branch to your stardust_core fork and open a pull request to the master branch

The logic currently is not able to close pop-ups which are located in shadow roots. Any help with fixing this issue would be greatly appreciated.