WebLapine

A toy rails app, acting as a web front/backend for my personal IRC bot.

Its main purpose is to save all the links and images that have been posted on an IRC channel.

The bot source is not included (yet), but if you already have one you can easily adapt it, doing REST requests is the only requirement.

Features

Links

Record and list URIs it receives, by network and channel.

• When an image URI is recognized, request a copy of the image through another REST call (so it can be hosted elsewhere)
• Parse images URIs from 9gag or imgur
• Recognize Youtube URIs and embed the video
• Recognize NWS NMS tags, so you can't see boobs inadvertently, or worse
• Search & pagination
• RSS feed

Usage

:network and :channel are arbitrary strings.

• POST /:network/:channel/links create a record, params are link[line] and link[sender]
• GET /:network/:channel/links HTML frontend.

Image copying

After recognizing an image URI, the app do a POST request to MIRROR_SERVICE_URI env variable with a uri param (the image to copy). The awaited answer is the URI for the hosted copy.

Example of php code for this matter, copying and renaming the file by date/time :

    <?php
    $uri  = $_REQUEST['uri'];
    $file = date("His") . '-' . array_pop(explode('/', $uri));
    $dir  = date("y/m/d");
    $dest = "$dir/$file";

    if ((is_dir($dir) || mkdir($dir, 0777, true)) && copy($uri, $dest)) {
        echo "http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . "/$dest";
    } else {
        header('HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request');
    }
    ?>

It should behave like this (here MIRROR_SERVICE_URI should be http://www.mycheaphosting.com/copy.php):

POST http://www.mycheaphosting.com/copy.php?uri=http://example.com/image.gif
returns => http://www.mycheaphosting.com/13/02/01/213500-image.gif

Logs

By network and channel, record any line of text, especially compromising ones. Then, months later, ask for a random line and have a good laugh.

:network and :channel are arbitrary strings.

• POST /:network/:channel/logs record the line, params are log[line] and log[sender]
• GET /:network/:channel/logs HTML frontend, with search and pagination
• GET /:network/:channel/logs/random return a random line
• GET /:network/:channel/logs/search param term, return a random line containing term
• GET /:network/:channel/logs/previous return the last (or older with offset param) line returned with details on sender and creation date

Admin

Uses ActiveAdmin as a back office.

TODO

• Release an example IRC bot code (preferably Hubot) and maybe deployment instruction on Heroku.
• Need auth, at least a minimal one for POSTs.