Merge pull request #1 from muharamdani/refactor/call-formkey-and-cook…

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Refactor | Update readme, call formkey and cookie form env file

.env.example

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+QUORA_FORMKEY=your_formkey
+MB_COOKIE=your_cookie

.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 node_modules
 .idea
 config.json
+.env

README.md

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 # Quora Poe
-
-- Since it 
+This is a CLI tool to call the Quora Poe API through GraphQL. It is a work in progress, and currently only supports the following:
+- Chat with 3 types of bots (Claude, Capybara, and Nutria)
+- Clear the chat history
 
 ## Installation
-
-To install this app, run:
+- Copy the .env.example file to .env and fill in the required fields
+- Run the following command to install the dependencies:
 
 ```
 npm install
@@ -20,9 +21,11 @@ npm start
 
 ## Requirements
 
-To use this API, you will need to have the following cookies:
-- Quora-Formkey: This is obtained by logging in to Quora.com, viewing the page source, and finding the "formkey" dictionary key. Use its value in the Quora-Formkey field.
+To use this API, you will need to have the following:
+- Quora-Formkey: This is obtained by logging in to Quora.com, viewing the page source, and finding the "formkey" dictionary key.
 - Cookie: 'm-b=xxxx' - This is the value of the cookie with the key m-b, which is present in the list of cookies used on Quora.com, you can simply inspect cookies in Chrome to get it.
+- Put the above two in a .env file in the root directory of the project
+
 Note: Next plan is to semi automate this things
 
 ## Dependencies
@@ -39,5 +42,7 @@ Note: Next plan is to semi automate this things
 - prompts
 
 ## Contributing
+Since I do not own apple devices, I am unable to reverse engineer the app to find the endpoints/requests made by the app.
+If you are able to do so, please contribute to this repo by adding new features or fixing bugs.
 
 To contribute to this repo, fork first and create a pull request.

dist/index.js

@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ import makeSession from "fetch-cookie";
 import fetch from "cross-fetch";
 import prompts from "prompts";
 import ora from "ora";
+import * as dotenv from "dotenv";
 import { readFileSync } from "fs";
+dotenv.config();
 const spinner = ora({
     color: "cyan",
 });
@@ -32,8 +34,8 @@ class ChatBot {
                     "apollographql-client-name": "com.quora.app.Experts-apollo-ios",
                     "Connection": "keep-alive",
                     "Content-Type": "application/json",
-                    "Quora-Formkey": "fil this",
-                    "Cookie": "fill this"
+                    "Quora-Formkey": process.env.QUORA_FORMKEY || "",
+                    "Cookie": process.env.MB_COOKIE || "",
                 },
             }),
             cache: new InMemoryCache(),
@@ -60,8 +62,12 @@ class ChatBot {
                 { title: "Claude - a2", value: "a2" },
                 { title: "Capybara (logical)", value: "capybara" },
                 { title: "Nutria (simpler)", value: "nutria" },
+                { title: "exit", value: "exit" }
             ],
         });
+        if (bot === "exit") {
+            return;
+        }
         await this.getChatId(bot);
         let helpMsg = "Available commands: !help !exit, !clear, !submit" +
             "\n!help - show this message" +

package.json

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     "cheerio": "^1.0.0-rc.12",
     "cli-spinners": "^2.7.0",
     "cross-fetch": "^3.1.5",
+    "dotenv": "^16.0.3",
     "fetch-cookie": "^2.1.0",
     "graphql": "^16.6.0",
     "graphql-tag": "^2.12.6",

src/index.ts

@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ import makeSession from "fetch-cookie";
 import fetch from "cross-fetch";
 import prompts from "prompts";
 import ora from "ora";
-import https from 'https';
-import {readFileSync, writeFile} from "fs";
+import * as dotenv from "dotenv";
+import {readFileSync} from "fs";
+
+dotenv.config();
 
 const spinner = ora({
     color: "cyan",
@@ -36,8 +38,8 @@ class ChatBot {
                 "apollographql-client-name": "com.quora.app.Experts-apollo-ios",
                 "Connection": "keep-alive",
                 "Content-Type": "application/json",
-                "Quora-Formkey": "fil this",
-                "Cookie": "fill this"
+                "Quora-Formkey": process.env.QUORA_FORMKEY || "",
+                "Cookie": process.env.MB_COOKIE || "",
             },
         }),
         cache: new InMemoryCache(),
@@ -65,8 +67,14 @@ class ChatBot {
                 {title: "Claude - a2", value: "a2"},
                 {title: "Capybara (logical)", value: "capybara"},
                 {title: "Nutria (simpler)", value: "nutria"},
+                {title: "exit", value: "exit"}
             ],
         });
+
+        if (bot === "exit") {
+            return;
+        }
+
         await this.getChatId(bot);
 
         let helpMsg = "Available commands: !help !exit, !clear, !submit" +