by Paul Thompson - nossidge@gmail.com - tilde.town/~nossidge
View the IRC logs of the tilde.town server offline from the comfort of your own web browser.
Once you've run the install and make code, open the generated file index.html.
Here's a screenshot of the index.
Pretty messy, but functional.
Here's a screenshot of the logs.
This is the most boring conversation I could find.
Each date has its own HTML log file, accessible by clicking the date on the left column of the table.
Tables can be sorted by clicking the column header. Rows can be highlighted by clicking on the left-most 'Time' column. Clicking and dragging on multiple rows will highlight them all, and subsequent sorting will not remove the highlighting.
At the top of each log, there is a list of all the usernames that chatted on
that day, sorted into 'humans' and 'robots' (e.g. 'cndorphbot', 'empirebot').
The humans are hyperlinked to their www.tilde.town/~ pages, including swapping
out IRC names for tildee names. e.g. 'hardmath123 => kc', 'mwelsh => herschel'
URLs in chat text are properly hyperlinked too, provided they begin with 'http' or 'www'. Super-long links are truncated so as not to break page flow.
Requires Ruby, SQLite and the sqlite3 Ruby gem.
Also requires you to be a member of tilde.town.
To get the code and run it:
git clone https://github.com/nossidge/tilde-town-irc.git
gem install sqlite3
All the code should be run from the scripts directory.
The file make.sh will run the below lines in order. You may have to run
the scp command ad-hoc if you have a password on your SSH key. (You may
have to rethink your approach to security if you do not have a password on
your SSH key.)
To get a copy of the lastest IRC logs (replace 'nossidge' with your name):
scp nossidge@tilde.town:~jumblesale/irc/log irc_log_`date +%Y%m%d`.txt
Use the above IRC log to create a SQLite database.
ruby make_database.rb irc_log_`date +%Y%m%d`.txt
Use the database to generate an HTML file with the logs for each date.
ruby make_html.rb
Ramdomly generate colours for each user and save to "resources/irc.css". You can run this until you are happy with the randomly chosen colours.
ruby make_css.rb
Are you going to put these HTML logs up on www.tilde.town somewhere?
Nope. The IRC logs are private, for members of tilde.town only. This repository is just for converting them to an HTML form. But if you are reading this, you should definitely think about joining us. I'm pretty sure you'd like it. I super do.
- ~vilmibm for the server.
- ~jumblesale for the logs.
- Stuart Langridge for the table sorter JS.