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streamfire

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Simple Campfire client that streams the room to terminal stdout.

I have used it on both Mac and Linux but should work fine on any POSIX terminal that supports ANSI colours.

IMPORTANT: streamfire is no longer under active development. This is because Campfire itself is effectively abandonware in all but name these days. Alternatives to Campfire that I've used and heartily recommend: Flowdock and Slack. I personally prefer Flowdock slightly but Slack is a good option if you have a small team - it has a freemium model.

IMPORTANT: If you want to use notifications you'll need the imagemagick library installed on your system (this is a requirement of the node-imagemagick module that streamfire uses internally). This will typically be available via your favourite package manager (e.g. brew install imagemagick) or directly from the imagemagick folks.

Features

  • Stream the content from a specified campfire room to stdout.
  • Send messages to the same room via stdin.
  • Paste multi-line messages.

That's it. Well, that's not completely true; there are a few bonus features too:

  • Auto-complete the name of a user in the room with the tab key.
  • List the users currently logged into the room.
  • Open the room in a browser.
  • Search a given room for messages matching a specific search term.
  • Print out the transcript from an entire day for a given room.
  • Automatically play sounds posted to a given room.

To get the most from streamfire you'll need a terminal emulator that supports ANSI colours - Personally, I use terminology from the Enlightenment project if only because you just need to click on image links from streamfire to see a popup of the image :-)

Installation

streamfire runs as a nodejs executable. So, to create a global symlink to the streamfire binaries:

npm install -g streamfire

Or, if you prefer to use from source then take advantage of npm link:

git clone git@github.com:kelveden/streamfire.git
cd streamfire
npm install
sudo npm link

That will create a symlink from the source into your global node modules. Reverse the process with sudo npm unlink.

Configuration

streamfire needs to know your Campfire API token and domain. To this end create a file ~/.streamfire/config.json and put the following in it:

{
  "domain": "your-campfire-domain",
  "apiToken": "your-campfire-api-token",
  "alertOn": [ "match1", "match2", ..., "matchX" ],
  "locale": "en-GB",
  "showTodaysAlertsOnStartup": false,
  "playSounds": false,
  "rooms": [
    { "id": 1234, "alias": "myroom" },
    { "id": 5678, "alias": "anotherroom" }
  ]
}
  • The domain is your campfirenew domain; e.g. mydomain.campfirenow.com.
  • The apiToken is your API authentication token as provided in your "myinfo" section of Campfire itself.
  • The alertOn field is a list of text fragments to match against messages in each room. (Each text fragment is treated as a case-insensitive regular expression internally; so feel free to use regular expressions.) When a match occurs the body of the matching message will be sent as a notification to the underlying OS. (You'll need imagemagick installed - please read the note on notifications at the very top of this README for more details.)
  • The locale field is used to format dates in the room output. (Defaults to "en-GB" if not specified.)
  • If true, the showTodaysAlertsOnStartup flag tells streamfire to automatically display all old alerts for the day whenever you startup streamfire. (i.e. Exactly the same as pressing 'F4'.) Default is false.
  • If true, the playSounds flag tells streamfire to automatically play sound messages posted to the room. (NOTE: This involves shelling out to mplayer and so requires that application to be installed.)
  • The rooms field allows specification of room aliases so that you can enter the alias rather than the room id at the command line (e.g. streamfire myroom instead of streamfire 1234.)

Usage

To list all available rooms and aliases

streamfire

To join a room:

streamfire (<your-room-id>|<your-room-alias>)

E.g. streamfire myroom. If you connect successfully you'll get shown all the recent messages in the room.

To search a room:

streamfire-search (<your-room-id>|<your-room-alias>) <search-term>

E.g. streamfire-search myroom "some term". The output will be a list of all messages that match "some term".

To see a transcript for a room:

streamfire-transcript (<your-room-id>|<your-room-alias>) [(<date>|<day offset>)]

E.g.

  • streamfire-transcript myroom 2014-01-01 - transcript for 1st October 2014.
  • streamfire-transcript myroom - transcript from today.
  • streamfire-transcript myroom 1 - transcript from yesterday.
  • streamfire-transcript myroom 2 - transcript from 2 days ago.

Creating new messages

  • Simply type into stdin and hit <Enter> to send a message to the room.
  • Paste in multi-line text into a single message - but make sure that the last line has a carriage return at the end, otherwise that line won't be sent.
  • Start typing the name of a user already in the room and then use tab to auto-complete.

More goodies

Press F1 once in a room to get a list of the available hotkeys. They currently are:

  • F1: Display help
  • F2: List users currently in room
  • F3: Open room in default browser
  • F4: Re-show alerts from today
  • F5: Reload messages from today - useful if lots of interaction between you and other users has created a bit of a mess on-screen as messages criss-cross stdin and stdout.

Contributing

If you want to contribute or fork streamfire here are a few of things to note:

  • To get started just pull down the source and run npm install within its directory.
  • Build tool is gulp. Just run gulp from the source root to run a full build and tests.
  • If you want to use streamfire from source, just
    • Uninstall the streamfire binary itself: npm uninstall -g streamfire
    • See the installation notes further up about creating a global symlink with npm.
  • You can get streamfire to output diagnostics information by simply adding the switch "--debug" to the command line; e.g. streamfire myroom --debug.
  • There is NOT 100% test code coverage. I've created what I think seems sensible but, quite frankly, given the fact that streamfire's main role is to stream stuff back and forth, creating such tests would be difficult to create in a maintainable way. And given that the functionality of streamfire can very quickly be tested just by joining a room it I'm not convinced that the effort is worth it.
  • That being said, I do like to see tests where feasible :-)

Acknowledgements

Streamfire icon comes courtesy of murfious

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