SiloZippr

SiloZippr aims to be a push-based realtime newsreader. It can combine various timelines into a single one. And if you've read the news, you simply delete them from the database. No need to build another silo...

SiloZippr is realtime in two ways:

• It combines node.js, WebSockets and Apache CouchDB to build a newsreader, where every new entry to the database will get pushed to your browser, which gives you a down-to-zero delay compared to traditional polling.
• Subscription of pubsubhubbub-enabled feeds using the Pubsubhubbub protocol. Services using PubSubHubBub: wordpress.com, feedburner.com, Google Alerts etc

At the moment three different sources can be used to fill SiloZippr with new entries:

• traditional rss/atom feed polling through a builtin feed aggregator.
• Twitter through their streaming-api. You will get new tweets in your timeline with zero delay.

Current status

Early beta

Installation

• Install node.js. https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installation or https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager

• Install "libexpat1-dev" for node-xmpp (when using superfeedr)
• Install silozippr:

 git clone git@github.com:mborho/silozippr.git silozippr
 cd silozippr
 npm install
 node bin/server.js

Setup

Copy config.json.example to config.json. Single services can be enabled/disabled.

• add the credentials for your CouchDb. You can of course use free CouchDB services like IrisCouch or Cloudant!
• add your login data into the app section
• to setup twitter delivery, got to http://dev.twitter.com to create an app and add the required tokens to the twitter part of json.config

Process monitoring

It's recommended to use a process monitor like Supervisord to run SiloZippr.

What's on the TODO list?

• distribe via NPM
• archive function
• share items with the world through a pubsubhubbub enabled feed
• integration of services to share items, like instapaper, bookmark services etc.
• more twitter features like posting status updates, retweeting and inline media.
• handling of malicious markup
• rebuild UI with Enyo
• add clients for more silos, like G+ for example
• reduce dependencies
• get it run on PaaS platforms lke http://nodester.com or http://cloudno.de. Problem is node-xmpp dependencies.
• test, tests

css framework / icons used

• bootstrap is used as css framework
• gentleface icons

License (Affero GPL 3)

Copyright (C) 2012 Martin Borho

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.