ASI Lite

This is designed as a fast and simple alternative to https://www.arretsurimages.net/ for mobile devices.

Minimal javascript is used.

It use the public API to fetch the content. Nothing is stored on the server.

Status

It's currently working and usable.

What's working:

• Login, logout
• List and paginate content
• Display content
• Display video
• Display inline video
• Navigate content, authors
• Search
• RSS/Atom feeds

Planned features:

• Option to display the cover images
• Fix layout of old articles

Usage

You will need docker to run asilite.

On development, run:

./script/server

It will run the server and expose it on the 4000 port: http://localhost:4000

On production:

1. Create the config/prod.secret.exs file with the minimal following content

   use Mix.Config
   config :asitext, AsitextWeb.Endpoint,
     secret_key_base: "YOURSECRETKEYBASE"

   • To enable hsts and host your instance behind a reverse proxy

     use Mix.Config
     config :asitext, AsitextWeb.Endpoint,
       secret_key_base: "YOURSECRETKEYBASE"
       force_ssl: [
         hsts: true,
         rewrite_on: [:x_forwarded_proto]
       ]

   • To enable Rollbar error tracking, add the following config:

     config :rollbax,
       enabled: true,
       access_token: "YOURACCESSTOKEN",
       environment: "production"

   • To protect the /login endpoint with basic auth, add the following content:

     config :asitext, :basic_auth, [
       username: "YOURUSERNAME",
       password: "YOURPASSWORD",
       realm: "Caution"
     ]

2. Build the image: docker build --tag asi .

3. Run it: docker run --publish 4000:4000 asi

Tests

Run:

./script/test

API bugs

Here is the list of unexpected behavior of the API:

• The Range header on search results only accept 0 9, 10 19 and not arbitrary range.
• The search endpoint ignore parameters if invalid.
• Some date are not formatted correctly

Acknowledgement

Thanks to the team at arretsurimages for the API. I disagree with the choice of using javascript on the client side, but the API is very simple to use.

License

(c) 2018 François de Metz

MIT