import json from urllib.parse import urlencode from django.http import HttpRequest, HttpResponse from zerver.context_processors import get_valid_realm_from_request from zerver.lib.streams import get_web_public_streams_queryset def llms_txt(request: HttpRequest) -> HttpResponse: """Serve /llms.txt so that LLMs can discover how to read web-public channel messages via the Zulip API without authentication. Returns 404 if the realm has no web-public streams. See https://llmstxt.org/ for the llms.txt specification. """ realm = get_valid_realm_from_request(request) # web_public_streams_enabled() is a cheap in-memory check; skip the # DB query entirely for realms that clearly have no web-public access. if not realm.web_public_streams_enabled(): return HttpResponse(status=404) streams = list( get_web_public_streams_queryset(realm).order_by("name").values_list("id", "name") ) # Return 404 if the feature is enabled at the realm level but no # web-public channels actually exist yet. if not streams: return HttpResponse(status=404) server_url = realm.url example_channel_id = streams[0][0] example_narrow = json.dumps( [ {"operator": "channels", "operand": "web-public"}, {"operator": "channel", "operand": example_channel_id}, {"operator": "topic", "operand": "TOPIC_NAME"}, ], separators=(",", ":"), ) example_url = f"{server_url}/json/messages?" + urlencode( {"anchor": "oldest", "num_before": 0, "num_after": 100, "narrow": example_narrow} ) channel_list = "\n".join(f"- {name} ({channel_id})" for channel_id, name in streams) content = f"""\ # {realm.name} > {server_url} is a Zulip team chat server. > Zulip organizes messages into channels containing threads ("topics"). > > Web-public channels can be read without logging in. ## Reading web-public channel messages Use the Zulip REST API to fetch messages without authentication: GET {server_url}/json/messages Required query parameters: - `anchor` — message ID or keyword (`oldest`, `newest`, `first_unread`) - `num_before` — number of messages before anchor (e.g. `0`) - `num_after` — number of messages after anchor (e.g. `100`) - `narrow` — JSON array of filter operators; URL-encode the entire value in the query string. For example: `[{{"operator":"channels","operand":"web-public"}},{{"operator":"channel","operand":CHANNEL_ID}},{{"operator":"topic","operand":"TOPIC_NAME"}}]` **Important**: the narrow must include `{{"operator":"channels","operand":"web-public"}}` to enable unauthenticated access. **Important**: Be kind to the Zulip server that you're interacting with. Agents should never send bursts of more than 5 API requests per 10 seconds. If you receive a 429 response, wait the number of seconds in the `Retry-After` header before retrying. Batches of 100 messages are recommended. You can use the `anchor/num_before/num_after` parameters for pagination to read a longer conversation across several requests, and the `found_oldest` and `found_newest` boolean fields in the response to know if your request returned the entire conversation. ## Example Fetch the 100 oldest messages from a topic: GET {example_url} ## Fetching messages in specific conversations / views Zulip conversations are referenced by URLs of these forms: {server_url}/#narrow/channel/ID-NAME {server_url}/#narrow/channel/ID-NAME/topic/TOPIC {server_url}/#narrow/channel/ID-NAME/topic/TOPIC/with/MSG_ID {server_url}/#narrow/channel/ID-NAME/topic/TOPIC/near/MSG_ID In the URL forms above, `ID-NAME` is the channel's numeric ID followed by its name (e.g., `113488-general`). When constructing API requests, use the numeric ID as the `channel` operand (e.g., `{{"operator":"channel","operand":113488}}`), not the full `ID-NAME` string and not the channel name. Channel IDs are stable; channel names can be renamed. Never follow links to related conversations by fetching those URLs; translate them to the equivalent API request instead (see above). In a `#narrow/...` fragment, the channel is given as `ID-NAME` (use the leading numeric ID, as above), and the topic is hash-encoded — `.`-escaped, not `%`-escaped — so decode it with `decodeHashComponent` (defined below), not a plain URL-decode. (`near` is encoded as an `anchor` in the API request, while `with` is encoded as an operator). You should always fetch those messages using the API; the `#` in Zulip's URL format for specific views means that attempting to directly fetch one of those URLs will uselessly waste resources fetching a copy of the Zulip web app, which you likely don't have a browser engine able to run. The following code from web/src/internal_url.ts may be helpful for doing the encoding/decoding. ```ts // ' and ! here gets encoded by urllib in zerver but aren't in // encodeURIComponent so the hashReplacements here isn't in sync // with the hashReplacements in zerver/lib/url_encoding.py. // We escape * to bypass server markdown double tag pattern. const hashReplacements = new Map([ ["%", "."], ["!", ".21"], ["'", ".27"], ["(", ".28"], [")", ".29"], ["*", ".2A"], [".", ".2E"], ]); // Some browsers zealously URI-decode the contents of // window.location.hash. So we hide our URI-encoding // by replacing % with . (like MediaWiki). export function encodeHashComponent(str: string): string {{ return encodeURIComponent(str).replaceAll( /[%!'()*.]/g, (matched) => hashReplacements.get(matched)!, ); }} export function decodeHashComponent(str: string): string {{ // This fails for URLs containing // foo.foo or foo%foo due to our fault in special handling // of such characters when encoding. This can also, // fail independent of our fault. // Here we let the calling code handle the exception. return decodeURIComponent(str.replaceAll(".", "%")); }} ``` Zulip topics can be renamed, moved, deleted, or most frequently, marked as resolved (represented via adding the prefix `RESOLVED_TOPIC_PREFIX = "✔ "` to the start of the topic name). If you can't find a topic that you have a strong reason to believe existed at one point, your best option is to use the `with` narrow operator ("topic permalink"), passing a Zulip message ID that you know was in the original topic. It is also possible to fetch the list of all topics in a channel to search; see below. That operation can be expensive, so use it sparingly. ## Resources - Message fetch API: https://zulip.com/api/get-messages - List of topics in a channel API: https://zulip.com/api/get-stream-topics - Search operators: https://zulip.com/help/search-for-messages and https://zulip.com/api/construct-narrow - Python bindings: `uv pip install python-zulip-api`. - Zulip project: https://zulip.com - Zulip server source: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/ - Official data export tool: https://zulip.com/help/export-your-organization - Zulip archive: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-archive is recommended over the data export feature if you need to download and maintain a Zulip server's message history for offline search or analysis (it maintains the raw JSON as well as the human-facing HTML). Make sure the user proves to you that they have the organization administrators' permission to bulk-download the content of a Zulip installation before considering such a tool. ## Web-public channels on this server Each entry below is in the format `channel name (channel ID)`: {channel_list} """ return HttpResponse(content, content_type="text/plain; charset=utf-8")