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+#!/bin/bash
+
+cat << "EOF"
+
+    _      _                            ___   ____    ____    ____
+   / \    | |__    _   _   ___    ___  |_ _| |  _ \  |  _ \  | __ )
+  / _ \   | '_ \  | | | | / __|  / _ \  | |  | |_) | | | | | |  _ \
+ / ___ \  | |_) | | |_| | \__ \ |  __/  | |  |  __/  | |_| | | |_) |
+/_/   \_\_|_.__/ _ \__,_| |___/  \___| |___| |_|     |____/  |____/
+
+        (_)_ __ | |_ ___  __ _ _ __ __ _| |_(_) ___  _ __
+        | | '_ \| __/ _ \/ _` | '__/ _` | __| |/ _ \| '_ \
+        | | | | | ||  __/ (_| | | | (_| | |_| | (_) | | | |
+        |_|_| |_|\__\___|\__, |_|  \__,_|\__|_|\___/|_| |_|
+                         |___/
+
+
+                    >> by https://sefinek.net <<
+
+This installer configures the UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter tool, which analyzes
+UFW firewall logs and reports malicious IP addresses to the AbuseIPDB database.
+
+
+EOF
+
+# Function to download a file using either wget or curl
+download_file() {
+    local url="$1"
+    local output="$2"
+    local user_agent="UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter/1.0.0 (+https://github.com/sefinek24/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter)"
+
+    if command -v wget >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        echo "INFO: Using wget to download the file. Please wait..."
+        wget --header="User-Agent: $user_agent" -O "$output" "$url"
+    elif command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        echo "INFO: wget not found. Switching to curl to download the file. Please wait..."
+        curl -A "$user_agent" -o "$output" "$url"
+    else
+        echo "ERROR: Neither wget nor curl is installed! Please install one of these tools and try running the script again."
+        exit 1
+    fi
+}
+
+# Function to remove the existing service
+remove_service() {
+    echo "INFO: Stopping and disabling the abuseipdb-ufw.service..."
+    sudo systemctl stop abuseipdb-ufw.service
+    sudo systemctl disable abuseipdb-ufw.service
+    sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/abuseipdb-ufw.service
+    sudo systemctl daemon-reload
+    sudo systemctl reset-failed
+    echo
+}
+
+# Function to validate the API token format
+validate_token() {
+    local token="$1"
+    if [[ ! "$token" =~ ^[a-f0-9]{80}$ ]]; then
+        return 1
+    else
+        return 0
+    fi
+}
+
+# Set the installation directory
+install_dir="/usr/local/bin/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter"
+script_path="$install_dir/reporter.sh"
+
+# Get the username of the user who invoked sudo (if any)
+invoking_user=$(logname)
+
+# Check if the service already exists
+if systemctl list-unit-files | grep -q '^abuseipdb-ufw.service'; then
+    echo "WARNING: abuseipdb-ufw.service is already installed"
+    read -rp "> Do you want to remove the existing service? [Yes/no]: " remove_existing
+
+    remove_existing=$(echo "$remove_existing" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
+    if [[ "$remove_existing" =~ ^(yes|y)$ ]]; then
+        remove_service
+    else
+        echo "INFO: Existing service will not be removed. Exiting..."
+        exit 0
+    fi
+fi
+
+# Create the installation directory
+echo "INFO: Creating installation directory at $install_dir..."
+if ! sudo mkdir -p "$install_dir"; then
+    echo "ERROR: Failed to create installation directory. Please check your permissions!"
+    exit 1
+fi
+echo "INFO: Installation directory created successfully"
+
+# Download the reporter.sh script
+GITHUB_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sefinek24/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter/main/reporter.sh"
+echo "INFO: Downloading reporter.sh from $GITHUB_URL"
+if ! download_file "$GITHUB_URL" "$script_path"; then
+    echo "ERROR: Failed to download reporter.sh from GitHub! Please check your permissions!"
+    exit 1
+fi
+echo "INFO: Successfully downloaded reporter.sh to $script_path"
+
+# Make the reporter.sh script executable
+if ! sudo chmod +x "$script_path"; then
+    echo "ERROR: Failed to make reporter.sh executable."
+    exit 1
+fi
+echo -e "INFO: reporter.sh has been made executable\n"
+
+# Prompt for API token with up to 3 attempts
+max_attempts=3
+attempts=0
+valid_token=false
+
+while [[ $attempts -lt $max_attempts ]]; do
+    read -rsp "> Please enter your AbuseIPDB API token: " api_key
+    echo
+
+    if validate_token "$api_key"; then
+        valid_token=true
+        break
+    else
+        attempts_left=$((max_attempts - attempts - 1))
+        echo "ERROR: Invalid API token format. Please enter an 80-character hexadecimal string. You have $attempts_left attempts left."
+        ((attempts++))
+    fi
+done
+
+if [[ "$valid_token" = false ]]; then
+    echo "ERROR: Maximum number of attempts reached. Installation aborted!"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Encode the API token
+token_file="$install_dir/.abuseipdb_token"
+echo "INFO: Encoding data..."
+if ! echo -n "$api_key" | openssl enc -base64 | sudo tee "$token_file" >/dev/null; then
+    echo "ERROR: Something went wrong. Failed to encode API token."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Update the ENCODED_API_KEY_FILE variable in reporter.sh by replacing the existing definition
+echo "INFO: Updating ENCODED_API_KEY_FILE variable in reporter.sh..."
+if ! sudo sed -i "s|^ENCODED_API_KEY_FILE=.*|ENCODED_API_KEY_FILE=\"$token_file\"|" "$script_path"; then
+    echo "ERROR: Failed to update ENCODED_API_KEY_FILE in reporter.sh."
+    exit 1
+fi
+echo
+
+# Prompt to add reporter.sh as a service
+read -rp "> Do you want to add reporter.sh as a service? [Yes/no]: " add_service
+
+# Normalize input to lowercase to handle variations in input (yes, y, no, n)
+add_service=$(echo "$add_service" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
+
+if [[ "$add_service" =~ ^(yes|y)$ ]]; then
+    service_file="/etc/systemd/system/abuseipdb-ufw.service"
+    echo "INFO: Setting up reporter.sh as a service"
+    if ! sudo bash -c "cat > $service_file" <<EOL
+[Unit]
+Description=UFW AbuseIPDB Reporter
+After=network.target
+Documentation=https://github.com/sefinek24/UFW-AbuseIPDB-Reporter
+
+[Service]
+Environment="PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
+ExecStart=$script_path
+Restart=always
+User=$invoking_user
+WorkingDirectory=$install_dir
+StandardOutput=journal+console
+StandardError=journal+console
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
+EOL
+    then
+        echo "ERROR: Failed to create service file. Please check your permissions!"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    sudo systemctl daemon-reload
+
+    if sudo systemctl enable abuseipdb-ufw.service && sudo systemctl start abuseipdb-ufw.service; then
+        echo "INFO: Attempting to start the abuseipdb-ufw.service..."
+    else
+        echo "ERROR: Failed to enable or start the abuseipdb-ufw.service. Please check the system logs for details."
+        exit 1
+    fi
+
+    # Add a 5-second delay before checking the service status
+    echo "INFO: Sleeping for 5 seconds..."
+    sleep 5
+
+    # Check if the service started successfully
+    if sudo systemctl is-active --quiet abuseipdb-ufw.service; then
+        echo "SUCCESS: abuseipdb-ufw.service is running!"
+        sudo systemctl status abuseipdb-ufw.service --no-pager
+    else
+        echo "ERROR: abuseipdb-ufw.service failed to start."
+        sudo systemctl status abuseipdb-ufw.service --no-pager
+        exit 1
+    fi
+elif [[ "$add_service" =~ ^(no|n)$ ]]; then
+    echo "INFO: reporter.sh will not be added as a service."
+    echo "INFO: Running reporter.sh directly. Press CTRL+C to stop the script."
+    if "$script_path"; then
+        echo "INFO: reporter.sh executed successfully."
+    else
+        echo "ERROR: Failed to execute reporter.sh."
+        exit 1
+    fi
+else
+    echo "ERROR: Invalid input. Please enter Yes, No, y, or n."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Prompt to add the service to autostart
+echo
+read -rp "> Do you want to add abuseipdb-ufw.service to autostart? [Yes/no]: " add_autostart
+
+add_autostart=$(echo "$add_autostart" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
+
+if [[ "$add_autostart" =~ ^(yes|y)$ ]]; then
+    if sudo systemctl enable abuseipdb-ufw.service; then
+        echo "INFO: Great! abuseipdb-ufw.service has been added to autostart. Installation finished!"
+        echo "INFO: Run 'journalctl -u abuseipdb-ufw.service -f' to view more logs."
+    else
+        echo "ERROR: Failed to add abuseipdb-ufw.service to autostart!"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+elif [[ "$add_autostart" =~ ^(no|n)$ ]]; then
+    echo "INFO: abuseipdb-ufw.service will not be added to autostart. Installation finished!"
+else
+    echo "ERROR: Invalid input. Please enter Yes, No, y, or n."
+    exit 1
+fi