From 2c92a4f1ee97fcb04fb4a4f50ce2de342c5977bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikaela Suomalainen Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:56:19 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] irc/limnoria: writeup titlefetching.md --- irc/limnoria/titlefetching.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ irc/supybot | 1 + 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 irc/limnoria/titlefetching.md create mode 120000 irc/supybot diff --git a/irc/limnoria/titlefetching.md b/irc/limnoria/titlefetching.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3eff673 --- /dev/null +++ b/irc/limnoria/titlefetching.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# A bit opinionated titlefetching + +``` +load Web +config plugins.web.snarfMultipleUrls True +config plugins.web.snarferShowDomain False +config plugins.web.snarferShowTargetDomain False +config channel #CHAN plugins.web.titleSnarfer True +config supybot.protocols.http.userAgents "Limnoria UrlPreviewBot" +``` + +* enables the plugin (shipped with Limnoria) +* enables titlefetching for all links on line, not just the first one +* disables showing domain (small protection against multiple titlesnarfers entering loop) +* disables showing redirect target -||- +* enables titlefetching per-channel (avoids unwanted channels in case of botloop) + * could also be `config config` or `config network NETWORKNAME` to do globally or per-network, but risk of accidental botloop +* sets user-agent to "Limnoria UrlPreviewBot" instead of ['Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; utils.web python module)' from 2005](https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria/blame/2990fcd302afdc6a3b741594017c3959fd5da2fd/src/utils/web.py#L120) + * I have heard that it's bad to pretend to be something you aren't and Twitter will only give you HTMl ``s if your user-agent contains `UrlPreviewBot` diff --git a/irc/supybot b/irc/supybot new file mode 120000 index 0000000..6abdd3e --- /dev/null +++ b/irc/supybot @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +limnoria \ No newline at end of file