expose mf2 <=> atom conversions as service and UI

[snarfed]

...specifically https://granary-demo.appspot.com/ . code will be easy; UI will probably be the tricky part (if any).

thanks to @voxpelli and @kartikprabhu for the inspiration!

[snarfed]

so this is pretty much all UI, and it's not at all clear to me how to integrate it with the existing UI. i tried a couple things and neither was very good. I'm open to ideas!

[kartikprabhu]

@snarfed UI as in exposing it through a form? How about having a hfeed->atom link on the main page; then expose a form that takes a URL, looks for h-feed and spits out an atom+xml document?

[snarfed]

@kartikprabhu sure, a separate page would work, but it'd be a bit clunky. my current attempt integrates it with the existing form that's shown when you auth with one of the silos, which is better, but also a bit clunky.

...or maybe I'm overthinking it and shouldn't worry so much about the UI. :P

[kylewm]

Clearly you need a microformats nascar button!

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omg i know you're joking but i am totally using that

[kylewm]

Was totally not joking!

[kylewm]

So yeah I was just thinking, microformats button would open up a form like you have for the other endpoints, but it would just have one query parameter for URL, and then would show output in the iframe like you have now.

[snarfed]

this is currently soft launched on https://granary-demo.appspot.com/ . it's not good enough - specifically, it only looks for mf2 (json/html) items at the top level, which doesn't really work - but it's a start.

[kylewm]

It works well for individual permalink pages, seems like it will be quite nice with h-feed support.

In case it's useful, in Woodwind I look for an h-feed anywhere on the page and parse that, or fall back to the top level items https://github.com/kylewm/mf2util/blob/master/mf2util/interpret.py#L198

[snarfed]

ah, good call, thanks. (and yet another reminder i should really be using mf2util already. :P)

[snarfed]

deployed!