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The classifier matched "line" as a bare word, so "LINE MAN: Food Delivery & more" (Thailand) and "Malé Taxi Line" (Maldives) each ranked as the country's top messaging app, ahead of WhatsApp. LINE now matches only as the whole name or before a colon. The classifier moves to app-kind.mjs so the fetcher and the table builder share it, and the builder re-derives each kind from the app name, so a cached fetch made under an older rule cannot carry its answer forward. The headline count is computed from the rows instead of typed: WhatsApp (Messenger or Business) is top in 73 countries.
26 lines
1.7 KiB
JavaScript
26 lines
1.7 KiB
JavaScript
// app-kind.mjs — what KIND of communication channel an App Store app is, from its name.
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//
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// A NAME-AND-KEYWORD HEURISTIC over a known list, recorded as such in every table that uses it.
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// It lives in its own file so the fetcher (fetch-top-apps.mjs) and the table builder
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// (build-tabulator-tables.mjs) classify with the SAME rule: the builder re-derives the kind from
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// the stored name, so a cached fetch made with an older rule cannot carry an old answer forward.
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//
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// ★ A BRAND THAT IS ALSO AN ENGLISH WORD MUST BE ANCHORED. `line` matched as a bare word made
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// "LINE MAN: Food Delivery & more" (Thailand) and "Malé Taxi Line" (Maldives) each country's TOP
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// messaging app, ahead of WhatsApp. LINE's own app is "LINE" or "LINE: Calls & Messages", so it
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// matches only as the whole name or the name before a colon.
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export const KIND = [
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[/\b(whatsapp|telegram|signal|viber|imo|zalo|wechat|weixin|kakaotalk|botim|imessage|messenger|skype|hike|jio ?chat|soul|beetalk)\b|^line(?:$|\s*:)/i, 'messaging'],
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[/\b(tiktok|douyin|kwai|likee|snack ?video|moj|josh|triller|reels)\b/i, 'short-video'],
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[/\b(facebook|instagram|snapchat|x|twitter|threads|vk|odnoklassniki|weibo|qzone|xiaohongshu|little red|sharechat|koo|mastodon|bluesky)\b/i, 'social'],
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[/\b(youtube|bigo|nimo|twitch|rumble|dailymotion|vimeo)\b/i, 'video'],
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[/\b(opera|uc ?browser|chrome|firefox|brave|puffin|phoenix ?browser)\b/i, 'browser'],
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];
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export function classify(name) {
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for (const [re, k] of KIND) if (re.test(String(name || '').trim())) return k;
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return 'other';
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}
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// The kinds a reachability table keeps (everything else is not a communication channel).
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export const isComms = (kind) => kind !== 'other' && kind !== 'browser';
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