Thursday, August 27, 2009

Twitter plugin + alert sender for Jopr updated



I've updated the twitter plugin for Jopr:

Manual add instead of auto discovery

The Twitter feed is no longer autodiscovered, but you have to go to the platform and explicitly add it there.

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The reason behind it is that most users don't want to have a twitter feed discovered on each agent.

To learn more about auto discovery vs. manuall add, have a look at my post "Jopr plugins: Autodiscovery vs. manual add".

Support for other Twitter-like services

The plugin is now also able to post to other twitter-like services like identi.ca (or your own private one based on the laconi.ca code).
The serverBase is http://identi.ca/api/ for Identi.ca, as well as the search base.
For Twitter, serverBase is http://twitter.com and searchBase is http://search.twitter.com/

If you select the right template, this will automatically be filled in for you.
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Alert sender updated too

I've also updated the Alert sending in the HEIKO-EXP branch to be able to send to other networks than Twitter.
This means that in the system configuration, there is a new field for the base url of the services api. See above for possible values.

related...

I've just seen that Twitter is offering a streaming api. This may be a nice addition to the plugin. Today every request to obtain values opens a new connection to Twitter. With the streaming api, this could probably go away.

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