503019 - [MODULE] IRC <-> Twitter gateway module

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Webtools Graveyard :: Mozbot, enhancement)

Description

[Will Norris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060308 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozbot/2.5

i'm not entirely sure how to distinguish between twitterers.  currently, it prepends the user's irc nick, though it probably should be at the end.  and/or i'm definitely open to other ideas.

Reproducible: Always




needs to be removed: (local mod)
use lib qw( /root/lib/CPAN/lib /root/lib/CPAN/lib/arch );

Comment 1

[Will Norris]

2 additions planned:

1. will emote back the URL to the tweet instead of merely parroting what the user typed.

2. at the request of foswiki's "marketing" guy, i will also add the ability to monitor the twitter feed and display them in the irc channel.

Comment 2

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

For addition no. 2, would it be simpler to use the RDF module in mozbot?

Comment 3

[Will Norris]

yes, thank you---scratch #2.  i msg'ed "vars RDF sites '+|twitter.com|http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/17037133.rss'" for #foswiki and it works great.

Comment 4

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Will, I am looking at expanding your module to include an ability to take tweets posted as URLs to the channel, grab the status number from the URL, and do a get statuses/show/:id as described here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/statuses/show/%3Aid

However, since I've used the API last they've added entities (urls hidden by t.co and media), which you can expand (I'd rather see a long URL or at least a preview of the long URL next to the shortened t.co link when displaying a tweet in channel) using the entities API: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-entities

My goal: as it is, if a user posts bug ID in channel, firebot responds with bug details. I want to see a world where a user posts a tweet link in channel, firebot responds with full text of tweet and either preview (display_url next to url, e.g. http://maps.google.com/maps http://t.co/abc123 ) or full URL (expanded_url, e.g. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=somejunk&d=someotherjunk) depending on how incredibly long the expanded_url really is.

I may get this done myself, I may not, but if I post about it here someone else who has experience may get it done.

Comment 5

[David Vo [:auscompgeek]]

Due to, as Thomas mentioned, using the RDF module may not be enough anymore, due to t.co and media entities. Looks like we're going to have to implement addition #2 anyway. I would also like to see the addition of searches as well, similar to how ZNC's twitter module works.

Comment 6

[:glob ✱]

Mozbot/Firebot is in maintenance-only mode; no further changes are planned.