search by transport

It would be really useful to be able to search for bridges by their transport in the relay search.

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@meskio: how urgent is that feature request? Anything we could tie to some sponsor work (ideally)?

Is not urgent. @gus and me were looking at what webtunnel bridges are being created and for that would be really nice to be able to search by transport, but we are able also to do that scrapping manually from onionoo.

The only sponsor I know we could fit this is in Sponsor 96, as we are developing webtunnel as part of that. @gaba what do you think? can we argue this fits in S96?

Yes. It fits on the sponsor 96's work. It depends on how much effort it takes as NH team is working on other sponsors

Is this needed to be on relay-serch? Or we can also provide you a nice table in grafana? We could do both probably, but would be nice to know if this is intended as a public feature or as an anti-censorpship thing.

For us a table in grafana will solve most of our needs, as long as we get there the hashed fingerprint of the bridges (or even better a link to the relay search page). Being able to do searches using the transport might be handy in some moments, but I guess that if the data is in grafana I can use the explorer for that just need to find where that data is.

I think this might be useful for people that doesn't have access to grafana. But maybe we need to figure out how to make grafana dashboards publicly accessible.

I think this might be useful for people that doesn't have access to grafana. But maybe we need to figure out how to make grafana dashboards publicly accessible.

We could think about that but I think it speaks something for having that in relay-search as well at least for now given all the other relay search related functionality is there, too. That way operators/interested parties won't need to deal with two different tools.

@hiro: What do you think? How much time would it cost to go the Grafana route for now and how much the relay-search one?

I think we can dedicate one week to this and add it to relay-search if it is of public interest. What does everyone think?

Fine with me. @gaba what do you think?

One week sounds good to me right now to work on this.

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created branch 40093-search-by-transport to address this issue

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This is a bit of a hack to be honest. Onionoo implements search filters on the summary documents, which do not include transport information. I have used a search on all the fields to implement possible transport switches on the advanced search feature on relay-search.

At the same time we can implement a more accurate query on the bridge status on tagtor.tpo on which we could provide a login

mentioned in commit 1f4b1508

closed with merge request !55 (merged)

mentioned in merge request !56 (closed)

mentioned in merge request !57 (merged)

mentioned in issue #40092 (closed)