From 1c474fef16c8b81febc3781257115bc81676a5cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maximun <rajatvermayt78645@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:24:26 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Removed color codes from log file

no ugly escape codes in logs :>
---
 copyparty/__main__.py | 14 ++++++++++++++
 copyparty/svchub.py   | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 docs/colors.txt       | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/devnotes.md      |  6 ++++++
 4 files changed, 81 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/colors.txt

diff --git a/copyparty/__main__.py b/copyparty/__main__.py
index 955c5830..266f59f7 100644
--- a/copyparty/__main__.py
+++ b/copyparty/__main__.py
@@ -2047,6 +2047,20 @@ def run_argparse(
 
 
 def main(argv: Optional[list[str]] = None) -> None:
+    ## if ever want to use logging
+    # import re, logging
+    # COLOR_RE = re.compile(r"\x1B(?:[@-Z\\-_]|\[[0-?]*[ -/]*[@-~])")
+    # def clean(msg: str):
+    #     return COLOR_RE.sub('', msg)
+    # orig_fac = logging.getLogRecordFactory()
+    # def logger_fac(*args, **kwargs):
+    #     record = orig_fac(*args, **kwargs)
+    #     print("Boing!")
+    #     if (isinstance(record.msg, str)):
+    #         record.msg = clean(record.msg)
+    #     return record
+    # logging.setLogRecordFactory(logger_fac)
+
     if argv is None:
         argv = sys.argv
 
diff --git a/copyparty/svchub.py b/copyparty/svchub.py
index fd581c20..0778d261 100644
--- a/copyparty/svchub.py
+++ b/copyparty/svchub.py
@@ -1372,6 +1372,19 @@ class SvcHub(object):
 
             lh = codecs.open(fn, "w", encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
 
+        # Patch the opened log file write method
+        orig_w = getattr(lh, "write")
+
+        def patched_write(data: str):
+            try:
+                clean = self.clean(data)
+            except:
+                clean = data
+            return orig_w(clean)
+
+        setattr(lh, "write", patched_write)
+        # lh.write = patched_write    #type: ignore
+
         if getattr(self.args, "free_umask", False):
             os.fchmod(lh.fileno(), 0o644)
 
@@ -1389,6 +1402,11 @@ class SvcHub(object):
         self.logf_base_fn = base_fn
         print(msg, end="")
 
+    # https://regex101.com/r/96ZckU/1
+    COLOR_RE = re.compile(r"\x1B(?:[@-Z\\-_]|\[[0-?]*[ -/]*[@-~])")
+    def clean(self, msg: str):
+        return self.COLOR_RE.sub('', msg)
+
     def run(self) -> None:
         self.tcpsrv.run()
         if getattr(self.args, "z_chk", 0) and (
diff --git a/docs/colors.txt b/docs/colors.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..52607a2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/colors.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+\033[0;1m
+\033[0;7m
+
+\033[0;32m
+\033[0;33m
+\033[0;35m
+\033[0;36m
+\033[0;40m
+\033[0;47m
+\033[0;90m
+
+\033[1;30m
+\033[1;31m
+\033[1;35m
+
+\033[30;47m
+
+\033[07m (same as \033[7m)
+
+\033[0m
+\033[1m
+\033[7m
+\033[27m
+\033[31m
+\033[32m
+\033[33m
+\033[34m
+\033[35m
+\033[36m
+\033[44m
+\033[45m
+\033[90m
+\033[94m
+\033[97m
+
+| Code type  | Range   |
+| ---------- | ------- |
+| Reset      | `0`     |
+| Bold       | `1`     |
+| Inverse    | `7`     |
+| Foreground | `30–37` |
+| Background | `40–47` |
+| Bright FG  | `90–97` |
diff --git a/docs/devnotes.md b/docs/devnotes.md
index 89dc8fb3..b083a4b2 100644
--- a/docs/devnotes.md
+++ b/docs/devnotes.md
@@ -491,6 +491,12 @@ mostly fine on android,  but still haven't find a way to massage iphones into be
 
 can be reproduced with `--no-sendfile --s-wr-sz 8192 --s-wr-slp 0.3 --rsp-slp 6` and then play a collection of small audio files with the screen off, `ffmpeg -i track01.cdda.flac -c:a libopus -b:a 128k -segment_time 12 -f segment smol-%02d.opus`
 
+## grabing colors
+to grab all color codes (ANSII escape seq) from the source (`../copyparty/`) (optional)
+
+```bash
+grep -roIE '\\033\[([0-9]{1,3};)?[0-9]{1,3}m' | sort -t ':' -k2 | cut -d ':' -f2 | sort -u
+```
 
 ## discarded ideas