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How it works

links creates a community by helping it's users share content with each other.

The primary function is to find and store as man URLs as possible. The URLs can be collected from 3 different sources, IRC (logs), twitter (@mentions) and pocket (http://www.getpocket.com). For each URL found the system will attempt to find the <title> and store it in the database. It can be configured to download images and create a thumbnail for viewing in the thumbs gallery.

This diagram shows some of the technologies used within links. It runs on a Apache/PHP/MySQL backend, the collectors are perl scripts, and the web interface is built on the twitter bootstrap UI (http://www.getboostrap.com) so it is very configurable.

This diagram shows the logical work flow of the collector scripts.

How it looks

links

The main links page has all of the URLs that have been collected.

• If it was a web page the <title> will be displayed.
• If an image is downloaded you will see a link to the (cache)ed copy.
• The numbered badges in the menu tell you how many new posts since the last visit.
• Use the settings to hide the cached thumbs and/or vids from this page.

thumbs

The thumbs page has all of the images that have been downloaded.

• Automatic width detection using the bootstrap UI. (http://www.getbootstrap.com)
• Click an image to open it in the lightbox. (http://blueimp.github.io/Bootstrap-Image-Gallery/)
• In the lightbox swipe left/right/up/down in on tablet and mobile.
• Settings
• Add or remove the details box under the images
• Add or remove videos from this page

thumbs lightbox

vids

The vids page has all of the videos embedded on one page.

• Supports Youtube and Vimeo

vids lightbox:

link-up

The link-up page is where you can authorize your pocket account or follow the twitter account.

settings

What you need

System

• Apache

• MySQL

• PHP

• perl (Collectors)

• perl modules

• DBI & POSIX

• LWP::UserAgent (LibWWW-perl)

• URI

• MIME::Types

• Encode

• File

• Optional:

• perl Image Magick (Image Download)

  • perl File::LibMagic (better mime type detection)

• perl Net::Telnet (Bot Chat)

• perl Net::Twitter (Twitter Post)

• perl NET::Amazon::S3 (Amazon S3 Storage)

Collectors

IRC

• Eggdrop (tcl-devel)

Twitter

• perl Net::Twitter
• perl Crypt::SSLeay
• perl WWW::Shorten::Bitly

Pocket

• perl WebService::Pocket::Lite (https://github.com/kiririmode/p5-WebService-Pocket-Lite)
• perl Crypt::SSLeay