reffy 6.2.0 → 6.2.1

package/src/lib/specs-crawler.js

@@ -1,603 +1,605 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env node
-/**
- * The spec crawler takes a list of spec URLs as input, gathers some knowledge
- * about these specs (published versions, URL of the Editor's Draft, etc.),
- * fetches these specs, parses them, extracts relevant information that they
- * contain (such as the WebIDL they define, the list of specifications that they
- * reference, and links to external specs), and produces a crawl report with the
- * results of these investigations.
- *
- * @module crawler
- */
-
-const fs = require('fs');
-const path = require('path');
-const specs = require('browser-specs');
-const cssDfnParser = require('./css-grammar-parser');
-const { generateIdlParsed, saveIdlParsed } = require('../cli/generate-idlparsed');
-const { generateIdlNames, saveIdlNames } = require('../cli/generate-idlnames');
-const {
-    completeWithAlternativeUrls,
-    expandBrowserModules,
-    expandCrawlResult,
-    expandSpecResult,
-    getGeneratedIDLNamesByCSSProperty,
-    isLatestLevelThatPasses,
-    processSpecification,
-    setupBrowser,
-    teardownBrowser,
-    createFolderIfNeeded
-} = require('./util');
-
-
-/**
- * Return the spec if crawl succeeded or crawl result from given fallback list
- * if crawl yielded an error (and fallback does exist).
- *
- * The function keeps the "error" property on the crawl result it returns so
- * that the error does not get entirely lost.
- *
- * @function
- * @param {Object} spec Actual spec crawl result
- * * @param {Object} spec Actual spec crawl result
- * @param {String} fallbackFolder The folder that contains fallback extracts
- * @param {Array<Object>} fallbackData A list of crawl results to use as
- *   fallback when needed
- * @return {Object} The given crawl result or a new one that reuses fallback
- *   content if needed
- */
-async function specOrFallback(spec, fallbackFolder, fallbackData) {
-    if (spec.error && fallbackData) {
-        const fallback = fallbackData.find(s => s.url === spec.url);
-        if (fallback) {
-            const copy = Object.assign({}, fallback);
-            const result = await expandSpecResult(copy, fallbackFolder);
-            result.error = spec.error;
-            return result;
-        }
-    }
-    return spec;
-}
-
-
-/**
- * Load and parse the given spec.
- *
- * @function
- * @param {Object} spec The spec to load (must already have been completed with
- *   useful info, as returned by "createInitialSpecDescriptions")
- * @param {Object} crawlOptions Crawl options
- * @return {Promise<Object>} The promise to get a spec object with crawl info
- */
-async function crawlSpec(spec, crawlOptions) {
-    crawlOptions = crawlOptions || {};
-    spec.crawled = crawlOptions.publishedVersion ?
-        (spec.release ? spec.release : spec.nightly) :
-        spec.nightly;
-    const fallbackFolder = crawlOptions.fallback ?
-        path.dirname(crawlOptions.fallback) : '';
-
-    if (spec.error) {
-        return specOrFallback(spec, fallbackFolder, crawlOptions.fallbackData);
-    }
-
-    try {
-        const result = await processSpecification(
-            spec.crawled,
-            (spec, modules) => {
-                const idToHeading = modules.find(m => m.needsIdToHeadingMap) ?
-                    window.reffy.mapIdsToHeadings() : null;
-                const res = {
-                    crawled: window.location.toString()
-                };
-                modules.forEach(mod => {
-                    res[mod.property] = window.reffy[mod.name](spec, idToHeading);
-                });
-                return res;
-            },
-            [spec, crawlOptions.modules],
-            { quiet: crawlOptions.quiet,
-              forceLocalFetch: crawlOptions.forceLocalFetch }
-        );
-
-        // Specific rule for IDL extracts:
-        // parse the extracted WebIdl content
-        await generateIdlParsed(result);
-
-        if (result.css) {
-            // Specific rule for CSS properties:
-            // Add CSS property definitions that weren't in a table
-            if (result.dfns) {
-                result.dfns
-                    .filter(dfn => dfn.type == "property" && !dfn.informative)
-                    .forEach(propDfn => {
-                        propDfn.linkingText.forEach(lt => {
-                            if (!result.css.properties.hasOwnProperty(lt)) {
-                                result.css.properties[lt] = {
-                                    name: lt
-                                };
-                            }
-                        });
-                    });
-            }
-
-            // Specific rule for CSS properties:
-            // Ideally, the sample definition (property-name) in CSS2 and the custom
-            // property definition (--*) in CSS Variables would not be flagged as
-            // real CSS properties. In practice, they are. Let's remove them from
-            // the extract.
-            ['property-name', '--*'].forEach(prop => {
-                if ((result.css.properties || {})[prop]) {
-                    delete result.css.properties[prop];
-                }
-            });
-
-            // Specific rule for CSS extracts:
-            // Parse extracted CSS definitions and add generated IDL attribute names
-            Object.entries(result.css.properties || {}).forEach(([prop, dfn]) => {
-                if (dfn.value || dfn.newValues) {
-                    try {
-                        dfn.parsedValue = cssDfnParser.parsePropDefValue(
-                            dfn.value || dfn.newValues);
-                    } catch (e) {
-                        dfn.valueParseError = e.message;
-                    }
-                }
-                dfn.styleDeclaration = getGeneratedIDLNamesByCSSProperty(prop);
-            });
-            Object.entries(result.css.descriptors || {}).forEach(([desc, dfn]) => {
-                if (dfn.value) {
-                    try {
-                        dfn.parsedValue = cssDfnParser.parsePropDefValue(
-                            dfn.value);
-                    } catch (e) {
-                        dfn.valueParseError = e.message;
-                    }
-                }
-            });
-            Object.entries(result.css.valuespaces || {}).forEach(([vs, dfn]) => {
-                if (dfn.value) {
-                    try {
-                        dfn.parsedValue = cssDfnParser.parsePropDefValue(
-                            dfn.value);
-                    } catch (e) {
-                        dfn.valueParseError = e.message;
-                    }
-                }
-            });
-        }
-
-        // Copy results back into initial spec object
-        spec.crawled = result.crawled;
-        crawlOptions.modules.forEach(mod => {
-            if (result[mod.property]) {
-                spec[mod.property] = result[mod.property];
-                if (mod.property === 'idl') {
-                    spec.idlparsed = result.idlparsed;
-                }
-            }
-        });
-    }
-    catch (err) {
-        spec.title = spec.title || '[Could not be determined, see error]';
-        spec.error = err.toString() + (err.stack ? ' ' + err.stack : '');
-    }
-
-    return specOrFallback(spec, fallbackFolder, crawlOptions.fallbackData);
-}
-
-
-/**
- * Saves spec results to extract files as needed and replaces the results with
- * links accordingly.
- *
- * @function
- * @param {Object} spec The results of crawling the spec. Object should contain
- *   metadata about the spec and the crawl processing results in appropriate
- *   properties.
- * @param {Object} settings Crawl settings. Recognized settings: "modules",
- *   "output" and "quiet". See CLI help (node reffy.js --help) for details.
- *   The "modules" setting is mandatory and note that the function will not do
- *   anything if "output" is not set.
- * @return {Promise<Object>} The promise to get an updated spec object that
- *   contains links to created extracts.
- */
-async function saveSpecResults(spec, settings) {
-    settings = settings || {};
-    if (!settings.output) {
-        return spec;
-    }
-
-    async function getSubfolder(name) {
-        let subfolder = path.join(settings.output, name);
-        await createFolderIfNeeded(subfolder);
-        return subfolder;
-    }
-
-    const modules = settings.modules;
-    const folders = {};
-    for (const mod of modules) {
-        if (mod.metadata) {
-            continue;
-        }
-        folders[mod.property] = await getSubfolder(mod.property);
-
-        // Specific rule for IDL:
-        // Raw IDL goes to "idl" subfolder, parsed IDL goes to "idlparsed"
-        if (mod.property === 'idl') {
-            folders.idlparsed = await getSubfolder('idlparsed');
-        }
-    }
-
-    function getBaseJSON(spec) {
-        return {
-            spec: {
-                title: spec.title,
-                url: spec.crawled
-            }
-        };
-    }
-
-    async function saveExtract(spec, property, filter) {
-        if (filter(spec)) {
-            const contents = getBaseJSON(spec);
-            contents[property] = spec[property];
-            const json = JSON.stringify(contents, null, 2);
-            const filename = path.join(folders[property], spec.shortname + '.json');
-            await fs.promises.writeFile(filename, json);
-            spec[property] = `${property}/${spec.shortname}.json`;
-        }
-        else {
-            delete spec[property];
-        }
-    }
-
-    async function saveIdl(spec) {
-        let idlHeader = `
-            // GENERATED CONTENT - DO NOT EDIT
-            // Content was automatically extracted by Reffy into webref
-            // (https://github.com/w3c/webref)
-            // Source: ${spec.title} (${spec.crawled})`;
-        idlHeader = idlHeader.replace(/^\s+/gm, '').trim() + '\n\n';
-        const idl = idlHeader + spec.idl + '\n';
-        await fs.promises.writeFile(
-            path.join(folders.idl, spec.shortname + '.idl'), idl);
-        return `idl/${spec.shortname}.idl`;
-    };
-
-    async function saveCss(spec) {
-        // There are no comments in JSON, so include the spec title+URL as the
-        // first property instead.
-        const css = Object.assign(getBaseJSON(spec), spec.css);
-        const json = JSON.stringify(css, (key, val) => {
-            if ((key === 'parsedValue') || (key === 'valueParseError')) {
-                return undefined;
-            }
-            else {
-                return val;
-            }
-        }, 2) + '\n';
-        const pathname = path.join(folders.css, spec.shortname + '.json')
-        await fs.promises.writeFile(pathname, json);
-        return `css/${spec.shortname}.json`;
-    };
-
-    // Save IDL dumps
-    if (spec.idl) {
-        spec.idl = await saveIdl(spec);
-    }
-    if (spec.idlparsed) {
-        spec.idlparsed = await saveIdlParsed(spec, settings.output);
-    }
-
-    // Save CSS dumps
-    function defineCSSContent(spec) {
-        return spec.css && (
-            (Object.keys(spec.css.properties || {}).length > 0) ||
-            (Object.keys(spec.css.descriptors || {}).length > 0) ||
-            (Object.keys(spec.css.valuespaces || {}).length > 0));
-    }
-    if (defineCSSContent(spec)) {
-        spec.css = await saveCss(spec);
-    }
-
-    // Specs that define CSS now have a "css" key that point to the CSS extract.
-    // Specs that don't define CSS still have a "css" key that points to an
-    // empty object structure. Let's get rid of it.
-    if (spec.css && typeof spec.css !== 'string') {
-        delete spec.css;
-    }
-
-    // Quick and dirty function to determine whether a variable is "empty"
-    // (it returns true for falsy values, which is good enough for what we need)
-    function isEmpty(thing) {
-        return !thing ||
-            Array.isArray(thing) && (thing.length === 0) ||
-            (typeof thing == 'object') && (Object.keys(thing).length === 0);
-    }
-
-    // Save all other extracts
-    const remainingModules = modules.filter(mod =>
-        !mod.metadata && mod.property !== 'css' && mod.property !== 'idl');
-    for (const mod of remainingModules) {
-        await saveExtract(spec, mod.property, spec => !isEmpty(spec[mod.property]));
-        if (spec[mod.property] && typeof spec[mod.property] !== 'string') {
-            delete spec[mod.property];
-        }
-    }
-
-    return spec;
-}
-
-
-/**
- * Main method that crawls the list of specification URLs and return a structure
- * that full describes its title, URLs, references, and IDL definitions.
- *
- * @function
- * @param {Array(String)} speclist List of URLs to parse
- * @param {Object} crawlOptions Crawl options
- * @return {Promise<Array(Object)} The promise to get an array of complete
- *   specification descriptions
- */
-async function crawlList(speclist, crawlOptions) {
-    // Make a shallow copy of crawl options object since we're going
-    // to modify properties in place
-    crawlOptions = Object.assign({}, crawlOptions);
-
-    // Expand list of processing modules to use if not already done
-    crawlOptions.modules = expandBrowserModules(crawlOptions.modules);
-
-    // Load fallback data if necessary
-    if (crawlOptions.fallback) {
-        try {
-            crawlOptions.fallbackData = JSON.parse(await fs.promises.readFile(crawlOptions.fallback)).results;
-        } catch (e) {
-            throw new Error(`Could not parse fallback data file ${crawlOptions.fallback}`);
-        }
-    }
-
-    // Prepare Puppeteer instance
-    await setupBrowser(crawlOptions.modules);
-
-    const list = speclist.map(completeWithAlternativeUrls);
-    const listAndPromise = list.map(spec => {
-        let resolve = null;
-        let reject = null;
-        let readyToCrawl = new Promise((resolveFunction, rejectFunction) => {
-            resolve = resolveFunction;
-            reject = rejectFunction;
-        });
-        return { spec, readyToCrawl, resolve, reject };
-    });
-
-    // In debug mode, specs are processed one by one. In normal mode,
-    // specs are processing in chunks
-    const chunkSize = Math.min((crawlOptions.debug ? 1 : 4), list.length);
-
-    let pos = 0;
-    function flagNextSpecAsReadyToCrawl() {
-        if (pos < listAndPromise.length) {
-            listAndPromise[pos].resolve();
-            pos += 1;
-        }
-    }
-    for (let i = 0; i < chunkSize; i++) {
-        flagNextSpecAsReadyToCrawl();
-    }
-
-    const nbStr = '' + listAndPromise.length;
-    async function crawlSpecAndPromise(specAndPromise, idx) {
-        await specAndPromise.readyToCrawl;
-        const spec = specAndPromise.spec;
-        const logCounter = ('' + (idx + 1)).padStart(nbStr.length, ' ') + '/' + nbStr;
-        crawlOptions.quiet ?? console.warn(`${logCounter} - ${spec.url} - crawling`);
-        let result = await crawlSpec(spec, crawlOptions);
-        result = await saveSpecResults(result, crawlOptions);
-        crawlOptions.quiet ?? console.warn(`${logCounter} - ${spec.url} - done`);
-        flagNextSpecAsReadyToCrawl();
-
-        return result;
-    }
-
-    const results = await Promise.all(listAndPromise.map(crawlSpecAndPromise));
-
-    // Close Puppeteer instance
-    teardownBrowser();
-
-    return results;
-}
-
-
-/**
- * Merges extracts per series for the given property and adjusts links
- *
- * @function
- * @param {Array(object)} data Crawl results
- * @param {string} property The extract property to process
- * @param {Object} settings Crawl settings. The function looks at the "output"
- *   setting to determine where to look for extracts
- * @return {Promise(Array)} The promise to get an updated crawl results array
- */
-async function adjustExtractsPerSeries(data, property, settings) {
-    if (!settings.output) {
-        return data;
-    }
-
-    const fullLevels = data.filter(spec =>
-        (spec.seriesComposition !== 'delta') &&
-        isLatestLevelThatPasses(spec, data, spec => spec[property]));
-    const deltaLevels = data.filter(spec =>
-        (spec.seriesComposition === 'delta') && spec[property]);
-
-    data.forEach(spec => {
-        if (fullLevels.includes(spec)) {
-            // Full level, rename the extract after the series' shortname
-            const pathname = path.resolve(settings.output, spec[property]);
-            spec[property] = `${property}/${spec.series.shortname}${path.extname(spec[property])}`;
-            const newpathname = path.resolve(settings.output, spec[property]);
-            fs.renameSync(pathname, newpathname);
-        }
-        else if (deltaLevels.includes(spec)) {
-            // Delta level, need to keep the extract as-is
-        }
-        else if (spec[property]) {
-            // Not the right full level in the series, drop created extract
-            // and link to the series extract instead
-            const pathname = path.resolve(settings.output, spec[property]);
-            fs.unlinkSync(pathname);
-            spec[property] = `${property}/${spec.series.shortname}${path.extname(spec[property])}`;
-        }
-    });
-
-    return data;
-}
-
-
-/**
- * Saves the crawl results to an index.json file.
- *
- * @function
- * @param {Array(Object)} data The list of specification structures to save
- * @param {Object} settings Crawl settings. The function does not create any
- *   save file if the "output" setting is not set.
- * @return {Promise<void>} The promise to have saved the data
- */
-async function saveResults(data, settings) {
-    if (!settings.output) {
-        return data;
-    }
-
-    // Save all results to an index.json file
-    const indexFilename = path.join(settings.output, 'index.json');
-    const contents = {
-        type: 'crawl',
-        title: 'Reffy crawl',
-        date: (new Date()).toJSON(),
-        options: settings,
-        stats: {},
-        results: data
-    };
-    contents.options.modules = contents.options.modules.map(mod => mod.property);
-    contents.stats = {
-        crawled: contents.results.length,
-        errors: contents.results.filter(spec => !!spec.error).length
-    };
-
-    await fs.promises.writeFile(indexFilename, JSON.stringify(contents, null, 2));
-    return contents;
-}
-
-
-/**
- * Crawls the specifications listed in the given JSON file and generates a
- * crawl report in the given folder.
- *
- * @function
- * @param {Object} options Crawl options. Possible options are:
- *   publishedVersion, debug, output, terse, modules and specs.
- *   See CLI help (node reffy.js --help) for details.
- * @return {Promise<void>} The promise that the crawl will have been made
- */
-function crawlSpecs(options) {
-    function prepareListOfSpecs(list) {
-        return list.map(spec => {
-            if (typeof spec !== 'string') {
-                return spec;
-            }
-            let match = specs.find(s => s.url === spec || s.shortname === spec);
-            if (!match) {
-                match = specs.find(s => s.series &&
-                    s.series.shortname === spec &&
-                    s.series.currentSpecification === s.shortname);
-            }
-            if (match) {
-                return match;
-            }
-
-            let url = null;
-            try {
-                url = (new URL(spec)).href;
-            }
-            catch {
-                if (spec.endsWith('.html')) {
-                    url = (new URL(spec, `file://${process.cwd()}/`)).href;
-                }
-                else {
-                    const msg = `Spec ID "${spec}" can neither be interpreted as a URL, a valid shortname or a relative path to an HTML file`;
-                    throw new Error(msg);
-                }
-            }
-            return {
-                url,
-                nightly: { url },
-                shortname: spec.replace(/[:\/\\\.]/g, ''),
-                series: {
-                    shortname: spec.replace(/[:\/\\\.]/g, ''),
-                }
-            };
-        });
-    }
-
-    const requestedList = options?.specs ?
-        prepareListOfSpecs(options.specs) :
-        specs;
-
-    // Make a shallow copy of passed options parameter and expand modules
-    // in place.
-    options = Object.assign({}, options);
-    options.modules = expandBrowserModules(options.modules);
-
-    return crawlList(requestedList, options)
-        .then(async results => {
-            // Merge extracts per series when necessary (CSS/IDL extracts)
-            for (const mod of options.modules) {
-                if (mod.extractsPerSeries) {
-                    await adjustExtractsPerSeries(results, mod.property, options);
-                }
-            }
-            return results;
-        })
-        .then(results => {
-            // Return results to the console or save crawl results to an
-            // index.json file
-            if (options.terse) {
-                const property = options.modules[0].property;
-                results = results.map(result => {
-                    let res = result[property];
-                    if (property === 'idl') {
-                        res = res?.idl;
-                    }
-                    return res;
-                });
-                if (results.length === 1) {
-                    results = results[0];
-                }
-                console.log(typeof results === 'string' ?
-                    results : JSON.stringify(results, null, 2));
-            }
-            else if (!options.output) {
-                console.log(JSON.stringify(results, null, 2));
-            }
-            else {
-                return saveResults(results, options);
-            }
-        })
-        .then(async crawlIndex => {
-            // Generate IDL names extracts from IDL extracts
-            // (and dfns extracts to create links to definitions)
-            if (!options.output || !crawlIndex?.options?.modules?.find(mod => mod === 'idl')) {
-                return;
-            }
-            const crawlResults = await expandCrawlResult(crawlIndex, options.output, ['idlparsed', 'dfns']);
-            const idlNames = generateIdlNames(crawlResults.results, options);
-            await saveIdlNames(idlNames, options.output);
-        });
-}
-
-
-/**************************************************
-Export methods for use as module
-**************************************************/
-module.exports.crawlList = crawlList;
-module.exports.crawlSpecs = crawlSpecs;
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/**
+ * The spec crawler takes a list of spec URLs as input, gathers some knowledge
+ * about these specs (published versions, URL of the Editor's Draft, etc.),
+ * fetches these specs, parses them, extracts relevant information that they
+ * contain (such as the WebIDL they define, the list of specifications that they
+ * reference, and links to external specs), and produces a crawl report with the
+ * results of these investigations.
+ *
+ * @module crawler
+ */
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const specs = require('browser-specs');
+const cssDfnParser = require('./css-grammar-parser');
+const { generateIdlParsed, saveIdlParsed } = require('../cli/generate-idlparsed');
+const { generateIdlNames, saveIdlNames } = require('../cli/generate-idlnames');
+const {
+    completeWithAlternativeUrls,
+    expandBrowserModules,
+    expandCrawlResult,
+    expandSpecResult,
+    getGeneratedIDLNamesByCSSProperty,
+    isLatestLevelThatPasses,
+    processSpecification,
+    setupBrowser,
+    teardownBrowser,
+    createFolderIfNeeded
+} = require('./util');
+
+
+/**
+ * Return the spec if crawl succeeded or crawl result from given fallback list
+ * if crawl yielded an error (and fallback does exist).
+ *
+ * The function keeps the "error" property on the crawl result it returns so
+ * that the error does not get entirely lost.
+ *
+ * @function
+ * @param {Object} spec Actual spec crawl result
+ * * @param {Object} spec Actual spec crawl result
+ * @param {String} fallbackFolder The folder that contains fallback extracts
+ * @param {Array<Object>} fallbackData A list of crawl results to use as
+ *   fallback when needed
+ * @return {Object} The given crawl result or a new one that reuses fallback
+ *   content if needed
+ */
+async function specOrFallback(spec, fallbackFolder, fallbackData) {
+    if (spec.error && fallbackData) {
+        const fallback = fallbackData.find(s => s.url === spec.url);
+        if (fallback) {
+            const copy = Object.assign({}, fallback);
+            const result = await expandSpecResult(copy, fallbackFolder);
+            result.error = spec.error;
+            return result;
+        }
+    }
+    return spec;
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * Load and parse the given spec.
+ *
+ * @function
+ * @param {Object} spec The spec to load (must already have been completed with
+ *   useful info, as returned by "createInitialSpecDescriptions")
+ * @param {Object} crawlOptions Crawl options
+ * @return {Promise<Object>} The promise to get a spec object with crawl info
+ */
+async function crawlSpec(spec, crawlOptions) {
+    crawlOptions = crawlOptions || {};
+    spec.crawled = crawlOptions.publishedVersion ?
+        (spec.release ? spec.release : spec.nightly) :
+        spec.nightly;
+    const fallbackFolder = crawlOptions.fallback ?
+        path.dirname(crawlOptions.fallback) : '';
+
+    if (spec.error) {
+        return specOrFallback(spec, fallbackFolder, crawlOptions.fallbackData);
+    }
+
+    try {
+        const result = await processSpecification(
+            spec.crawled,
+            (spec, modules) => {
+                const idToHeading = modules.find(m => m.needsIdToHeadingMap) ?
+                    window.reffy.mapIdsToHeadings() : null;
+                const res = {
+                    crawled: window.location.toString()
+                };
+                modules.forEach(mod => {
+                    res[mod.property] = window.reffy[mod.name](spec, idToHeading);
+                });
+                return res;
+            },
+            [spec, crawlOptions.modules],
+            { quiet: crawlOptions.quiet,
+              forceLocalFetch: crawlOptions.forceLocalFetch }
+        );
+
+        // Specific rule for IDL extracts:
+        // parse the extracted WebIdl content
+        await generateIdlParsed(result);
+
+        if (result.css) {
+            // Specific rule for CSS properties:
+            // Add CSS property definitions that weren't in a table
+            if (result.dfns) {
+                result.dfns
+                    .filter(dfn => dfn.type == "property" && !dfn.informative)
+                    .forEach(propDfn => {
+                        propDfn.linkingText.forEach(lt => {
+                            if (!result.css.properties.hasOwnProperty(lt)) {
+                                result.css.properties[lt] = {
+                                    name: lt
+                                };
+                            }
+                        });
+                    });
+            }
+
+            // Specific rule for CSS properties:
+            // Ideally, the sample definition (property-name) in CSS2 and the custom
+            // property definition (--*) in CSS Variables would not be flagged as
+            // real CSS properties. In practice, they are. Let's remove them from
+            // the extract.
+            ['property-name', '--*'].forEach(prop => {
+                if ((result.css.properties || {})[prop]) {
+                    delete result.css.properties[prop];
+                }
+            });
+
+            // Specific rule for CSS extracts:
+            // Parse extracted CSS definitions and add generated IDL attribute names
+            Object.entries(result.css.properties || {}).forEach(([prop, dfn]) => {
+                if (dfn.value || dfn.newValues) {
+                    try {
+                        dfn.parsedValue = cssDfnParser.parsePropDefValue(
+                            dfn.value || dfn.newValues);
+                    } catch (e) {
+                        dfn.valueParseError = e.message;
+                    }
+                }
+                dfn.styleDeclaration = getGeneratedIDLNamesByCSSProperty(prop);
+            });
+            Object.entries(result.css.descriptors || {}).forEach(([desc, dfn]) => {
+                if (dfn.value) {
+                    try {
+                        dfn.parsedValue = cssDfnParser.parsePropDefValue(
+                            dfn.value);
+                    } catch (e) {
+                        dfn.valueParseError = e.message;
+                    }
+                }
+            });
+            Object.entries(result.css.valuespaces || {}).forEach(([vs, dfn]) => {
+                if (dfn.value) {
+                    try {
+                        dfn.parsedValue = cssDfnParser.parsePropDefValue(
+                            dfn.value);
+                    } catch (e) {
+                        dfn.valueParseError = e.message;
+                    }
+                }
+            });
+        }
+
+        // Copy results back into initial spec object
+        spec.crawled = result.crawled;
+        crawlOptions.modules.forEach(mod => {
+            if (result[mod.property]) {
+                spec[mod.property] = result[mod.property];
+                if (mod.property === 'idl') {
+                    spec.idlparsed = result.idlparsed;
+                }
+            }
+        });
+    }
+    catch (err) {
+        spec.title = spec.title || '[Could not be determined, see error]';
+        spec.error = err.toString() + (err.stack ? ' ' + err.stack : '');
+    }
+
+    return specOrFallback(spec, fallbackFolder, crawlOptions.fallbackData);
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * Saves spec results to extract files as needed and replaces the results with
+ * links accordingly.
+ *
+ * @function
+ * @param {Object} spec The results of crawling the spec. Object should contain
+ *   metadata about the spec and the crawl processing results in appropriate
+ *   properties.
+ * @param {Object} settings Crawl settings. Recognized settings: "modules",
+ *   "output" and "quiet". See CLI help (node reffy.js --help) for details.
+ *   The "modules" setting is mandatory and note that the function will not do
+ *   anything if "output" is not set.
+ * @return {Promise<Object>} The promise to get an updated spec object that
+ *   contains links to created extracts.
+ */
+async function saveSpecResults(spec, settings) {
+    settings = settings || {};
+    if (!settings.output) {
+        return spec;
+    }
+
+    async function getSubfolder(name) {
+        let subfolder = path.join(settings.output, name);
+        await createFolderIfNeeded(subfolder);
+        return subfolder;
+    }
+
+    const modules = settings.modules;
+    const folders = {};
+    for (const mod of modules) {
+        if (mod.metadata) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        folders[mod.property] = await getSubfolder(mod.property);
+
+        // Specific rule for IDL:
+        // Raw IDL goes to "idl" subfolder, parsed IDL goes to "idlparsed"
+        if (mod.property === 'idl') {
+            folders.idlparsed = await getSubfolder('idlparsed');
+        }
+    }
+
+    function getBaseJSON(spec) {
+        return {
+            spec: {
+                title: spec.title,
+                url: spec.crawled
+            }
+        };
+    }
+
+    async function saveExtract(spec, property, filter) {
+        if (filter(spec)) {
+            const contents = getBaseJSON(spec);
+            contents[property] = spec[property];
+            const json = JSON.stringify(contents, null, 2);
+            const filename = path.join(folders[property], spec.shortname + '.json');
+            await fs.promises.writeFile(filename, json);
+            spec[property] = `${property}/${spec.shortname}.json`;
+        }
+        else {
+            delete spec[property];
+        }
+    }
+
+    async function saveIdl(spec) {
+        let idlHeader = `
+            // GENERATED CONTENT - DO NOT EDIT
+            // Content was automatically extracted by Reffy into webref
+            // (https://github.com/w3c/webref)
+            // Source: ${spec.title} (${spec.crawled})`;
+        idlHeader = idlHeader.replace(/^\s+/gm, '').trim() + '\n\n';
+        const idl = idlHeader + spec.idl + '\n';
+        await fs.promises.writeFile(
+            path.join(folders.idl, spec.shortname + '.idl'), idl);
+        return `idl/${spec.shortname}.idl`;
+    };
+
+    async function saveCss(spec) {
+        // There are no comments in JSON, so include the spec title+URL as the
+        // first property instead.
+        const css = Object.assign(getBaseJSON(spec), spec.css);
+        const json = JSON.stringify(css, (key, val) => {
+            if ((key === 'parsedValue') || (key === 'valueParseError')) {
+                return undefined;
+            }
+            else {
+                return val;
+            }
+        }, 2) + '\n';
+        const pathname = path.join(folders.css, spec.shortname + '.json')
+        await fs.promises.writeFile(pathname, json);
+        return `css/${spec.shortname}.json`;
+    };
+
+    // Save IDL dumps
+    if (spec.idl) {
+        spec.idl = await saveIdl(spec);
+    }
+    if (spec.idlparsed) {
+        spec.idlparsed = await saveIdlParsed(spec, settings.output);
+    }
+
+    // Save CSS dumps
+    function defineCSSContent(spec) {
+        return spec.css && (
+            (Object.keys(spec.css.properties || {}).length > 0) ||
+            (Object.keys(spec.css.descriptors || {}).length > 0) ||
+            (Object.keys(spec.css.valuespaces || {}).length > 0));
+    }
+    if (defineCSSContent(spec)) {
+        spec.css = await saveCss(spec);
+    }
+
+    // Specs that define CSS now have a "css" key that point to the CSS extract.
+    // Specs that don't define CSS still have a "css" key that points to an
+    // empty object structure. Let's get rid of it.
+    if (spec.css && typeof spec.css !== 'string') {
+        delete spec.css;
+    }
+
+    // Quick and dirty function to determine whether a variable is "empty"
+    // (it returns true for falsy values, which is good enough for what we need)
+    function isEmpty(thing) {
+        return !thing ||
+            Array.isArray(thing) && (thing.length === 0) ||
+            (typeof thing == 'object') && (Object.keys(thing).length === 0);
+    }
+
+    // Save all other extracts
+    const remainingModules = modules.filter(mod =>
+        !mod.metadata && mod.property !== 'css' && mod.property !== 'idl');
+    for (const mod of remainingModules) {
+        await saveExtract(spec, mod.property, spec => !isEmpty(spec[mod.property]));
+        if (spec[mod.property] && typeof spec[mod.property] !== 'string') {
+            delete spec[mod.property];
+        }
+    }
+
+    return spec;
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * Main method that crawls the list of specification URLs and return a structure
+ * that full describes its title, URLs, references, and IDL definitions.
+ *
+ * @function
+ * @param {Array(String)} speclist List of URLs to parse
+ * @param {Object} crawlOptions Crawl options
+ * @return {Promise<Array(Object)} The promise to get an array of complete
+ *   specification descriptions
+ */
+async function crawlList(speclist, crawlOptions) {
+    // Make a shallow copy of crawl options object since we're going
+    // to modify properties in place
+    crawlOptions = Object.assign({}, crawlOptions);
+
+    // Expand list of processing modules to use if not already done
+    crawlOptions.modules = expandBrowserModules(crawlOptions.modules);
+
+    // Load fallback data if necessary
+    if (crawlOptions.fallback) {
+        try {
+            crawlOptions.fallbackData = JSON.parse(await fs.promises.readFile(crawlOptions.fallback)).results;
+        } catch (e) {
+            throw new Error(`Could not parse fallback data file ${crawlOptions.fallback}`);
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Prepare Puppeteer instance
+    await setupBrowser(crawlOptions.modules);
+
+    const list = speclist.map(completeWithAlternativeUrls);
+    const listAndPromise = list.map(spec => {
+        let resolve = null;
+        let reject = null;
+        let readyToCrawl = new Promise((resolveFunction, rejectFunction) => {
+            resolve = resolveFunction;
+            reject = rejectFunction;
+        });
+        return { spec, readyToCrawl, resolve, reject };
+    });
+
+    // In debug mode, specs are processed one by one. In normal mode,
+    // specs are processing in chunks
+    const chunkSize = Math.min((crawlOptions.debug ? 1 : 4), list.length);
+
+    let pos = 0;
+    function flagNextSpecAsReadyToCrawl() {
+        if (pos < listAndPromise.length) {
+            listAndPromise[pos].resolve();
+            pos += 1;
+        }
+    }
+    for (let i = 0; i < chunkSize; i++) {
+        flagNextSpecAsReadyToCrawl();
+    }
+
+    const nbStr = '' + listAndPromise.length;
+    async function crawlSpecAndPromise(specAndPromise, idx) {
+        await specAndPromise.readyToCrawl;
+        const spec = specAndPromise.spec;
+        const logCounter = ('' + (idx + 1)).padStart(nbStr.length, ' ') + '/' + nbStr;
+        crawlOptions.quiet ?? console.warn(`${logCounter} - ${spec.url} - crawling`);
+        let result = await crawlSpec(spec, crawlOptions);
+        result = await saveSpecResults(result, crawlOptions);
+        crawlOptions.quiet ?? console.warn(`${logCounter} - ${spec.url} - done`);
+        flagNextSpecAsReadyToCrawl();
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    const results = await Promise.all(listAndPromise.map(crawlSpecAndPromise));
+
+    // Close Puppeteer instance
+    teardownBrowser();
+
+    return results;
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * Merges extracts per series for the given property and adjusts links
+ *
+ * @function
+ * @param {Array(object)} data Crawl results
+ * @param {string} property The extract property to process
+ * @param {Object} settings Crawl settings. The function looks at the "output"
+ *   setting to determine where to look for extracts
+ * @return {Promise(Array)} The promise to get an updated crawl results array
+ */
+async function adjustExtractsPerSeries(data, property, settings) {
+    if (!settings.output) {
+        return data;
+    }
+
+    const fullLevels = data.filter(spec =>
+        (spec.seriesComposition !== 'delta') &&
+        isLatestLevelThatPasses(spec, data, spec => spec[property]));
+    const deltaLevels = data.filter(spec =>
+        (spec.seriesComposition === 'delta') && spec[property]);
+
+    data.forEach(spec => {
+        if (fullLevels.includes(spec)) {
+            // Full level, rename the extract after the series' shortname
+            const pathname = path.resolve(settings.output, spec[property]);
+            spec[property] = `${property}/${spec.series.shortname}${path.extname(spec[property])}`;
+            const newpathname = path.resolve(settings.output, spec[property]);
+            fs.renameSync(pathname, newpathname);
+        }
+        else if (deltaLevels.includes(spec)) {
+            // Delta level, need to keep the extract as-is
+        }
+        else if (spec[property]) {
+            // Not the right full level in the series, drop created extract
+            const pathname = path.resolve(settings.output, spec[property]);
+            fs.unlinkSync(pathname);
+            delete spec[property];
+        }
+    });
+
+    return data;
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * Saves the crawl results to an index.json file.
+ *
+ * @function
+ * @param {Array(Object)} data The list of specification structures to save
+ * @param {Object} settings Crawl settings. The function does not create any
+ *   save file if the "output" setting is not set.
+ * @return {Promise<void>} The promise to have saved the data
+ */
+async function saveResults(data, settings) {
+    if (!settings.output) {
+        return data;
+    }
+
+    // Save all results to an index.json file
+    const indexFilename = path.join(settings.output, 'index.json');
+    const contents = {
+        type: 'crawl',
+        title: 'Reffy crawl',
+        date: (new Date()).toJSON(),
+        options: settings,
+        stats: {},
+        results: data
+    };
+    contents.options.modules = contents.options.modules.map(mod => mod.property);
+    contents.stats = {
+        crawled: contents.results.length,
+        errors: contents.results.filter(spec => !!spec.error).length
+    };
+
+    await fs.promises.writeFile(indexFilename, JSON.stringify(contents, null, 2));
+    return contents;
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * Crawls the specifications listed in the given JSON file and generates a
+ * crawl report in the given folder.
+ *
+ * @function
+ * @param {Object} options Crawl options. Possible options are:
+ *   publishedVersion, debug, output, terse, modules and specs.
+ *   See CLI help (node reffy.js --help) for details.
+ * @return {Promise<void>} The promise that the crawl will have been made
+ */
+function crawlSpecs(options) {
+    function prepareListOfSpecs(list) {
+        return list.map(spec => {
+            if (typeof spec !== 'string') {
+                return spec;
+            }
+            let match = specs.find(s => s.url === spec || s.shortname === spec);
+            if (!match) {
+                match = specs.find(s => s.series &&
+                    s.series.shortname === spec &&
+                    s.series.currentSpecification === s.shortname);
+            }
+            if (match) {
+                return match;
+            }
+
+            let url = null;
+            try {
+                url = (new URL(spec)).href;
+            }
+            catch {
+                if (spec.endsWith('.html')) {
+                    url = (new URL(spec, `file://${process.cwd()}/`)).href;
+                }
+                else {
+                    const msg = `Spec ID "${spec}" can neither be interpreted as a URL, a valid shortname or a relative path to an HTML file`;
+                    throw new Error(msg);
+                }
+            }
+            return {
+                url,
+                nightly: { url },
+                shortname: spec.replace(/[:\/\\\.]/g, ''),
+                series: {
+                    shortname: spec.replace(/[:\/\\\.]/g, ''),
+                }
+            };
+        });
+    }
+
+    const requestedList = options?.specs ?
+        prepareListOfSpecs(options.specs) :
+        specs;
+
+    // Make a shallow copy of passed options parameter and expand modules
+    // in place.
+    options = Object.assign({}, options);
+    options.modules = expandBrowserModules(options.modules);
+
+    return crawlList(requestedList, options)
+        .then(async results => {
+            // Merge extracts per series when necessary (CSS/IDL extracts)
+            for (const mod of options.modules) {
+                if (mod.extractsPerSeries) {
+                    await adjustExtractsPerSeries(results, mod.property, options);
+                    if (mod.property === 'idl') {
+                        await adjustExtractsPerSeries(results, 'idlparsed', options);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            return results;
+        })
+        .then(results => {
+            // Return results to the console or save crawl results to an
+            // index.json file
+            if (options.terse) {
+                const property = options.modules[0].property;
+                results = results.map(result => {
+                    let res = result[property];
+                    if (property === 'idl') {
+                        res = res?.idl;
+                    }
+                    return res;
+                });
+                if (results.length === 1) {
+                    results = results[0];
+                }
+                console.log(typeof results === 'string' ?
+                    results : JSON.stringify(results, null, 2));
+            }
+            else if (!options.output) {
+                console.log(JSON.stringify(results, null, 2));
+            }
+            else {
+                return saveResults(results, options);
+            }
+        })
+        .then(async crawlIndex => {
+            // Generate IDL names extracts from IDL extracts
+            // (and dfns extracts to create links to definitions)
+            if (!options.output || !crawlIndex?.options?.modules?.find(mod => mod === 'idl')) {
+                return;
+            }
+            const crawlResults = await expandCrawlResult(crawlIndex, options.output, ['idlparsed', 'dfns']);
+            const idlNames = generateIdlNames(crawlResults.results, options);
+            await saveIdlNames(idlNames, options.output);
+        });
+}
+
+
+/**************************************************
+Export methods for use as module
+**************************************************/
+module.exports.crawlList = crawlList;
+module.exports.crawlSpecs = crawlSpecs;