api/validate.py

import requests
import re
import time

BASE_URL = "https://www.blackbox.ai"
HEADERS = {
    "User-Agent": (
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) "
        "AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
        "Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36"
    )
}

# Cache variables
_cached_hid = None
_cache_time = 0
CACHE_DURATION = 36000  # Cache duration in seconds (10 hours)


def get_hid(force_refresh=False):
    global _cached_hid, _cache_time
    current_time = time.time()

    # Use cached value if not expired
    if not force_refresh and _cached_hid and (current_time - _cache_time) < CACHE_DURATION:
        print("Using cached hid:", _cached_hid)
        return _cached_hid

    try:
        # Get initial HTML content
        response = requests.get(BASE_URL, headers=HEADERS)
        response.raise_for_status()
        content = response.text

        # Find the specific JS file path
        pattern = r"static/chunks/app/layout-[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.js"
        match = re.search(pattern, content)

        if match:
            # Construct full JS file URL
            js_path = match.group()
            full_url = f"{BASE_URL}/_next/{js_path}"

            # Request JS file content
            js_response = requests.get(full_url, headers=HEADERS)
            js_response.raise_for_status()

            # Search for h-value in JS content
            h_pattern = r'h="([0-9a-f-]+)"'
            h_match = re.search(h_pattern, js_response.text)

            if h_match:
                h_value = h_match.group(1)
                print("Found h-value:", h_value)
                # Update cache
                _cached_hid = h_value
                _cache_time = current_time
                return h_value
            else:
                print("h-value not found in JS content")
                return None
        else:
            print("JS file path not found in HTML content")
            return None
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print(f"An error occurred: {e}")
        return None