Meatspace

What it is

Decentralized micrologging. A lightweight module to manage mini posts through your node app.

How to use it

You can use curl to run all the commands below or you can create your own site and use the module as part of your micrologging setup.

Setup

Install redis.

> brew install redis
> redis-server

Install dependencies

npm install

Meatspace format

{
    id: 1,
    fullName: 'Edna Piranha',
    postUrl: 'http://url/to/this/meatspace.com/recent.json',
    content: {
        created: 1368383147,
        updated: 1368383147,
        message: 'some message',
        urls: [
            {
                title: 'some url',
                url: 'http://some.url.com'
            }
        ]
    },
    meta: {
        location: '37.3882807, -122.0828559',
        isPrivate: false,
        isShared: false
    },
    shares: [
        'http://some.other.url.com/recent.json'
    ]
}

Meatspace actions

Initialize

var Meatspace = require('meatspace');

var meat = new Meatspace({
  fullName: 'Edna Piranha',
  username: 'ednapiranha',
  postUrl: 'http://meatspace.generalgoods.net/recent.json',
  db: 0,
  limit: 10,
  keyId: ':1'
});

db is the Redis database you are using.

keyId is an optional value you can set to assign a key to a particular user id or identifier. If you are not running this for multiple users, skip changing this option (optional).

limit is the number of records you want returned per page - defaults to 10 (optional).

Create

var message = {
  content: {
    message: 'some message',
    urls: [
      {
        title: 'some url',
        url: 'http://some.url.com'
      }
    ]
  },
  meta: {
    location: '37.3882807, -122.0828559',
    isPrivate: false
  }
};

meat.create(message, function (err, message) {
  if (!err) {
    console.log(message);
  }
});

Edit / Update

meat.get(1, function (err, m) {
  if (!err) {
    m.content.message = 'new updated message';
    meat.update(m, function (err, m) {
      if (!err) {
        console.log(m)
      }
    });
  }
});

Delete

meat.get(1, function (err, message) {
  if (!err) {
    meat.del(message.id, function (err, status) {
      if (status) {
        console.log('deleted!')
      }
    });
  }
});

Get all public and private

The default limit is set to 10. You can change this by setting meat.limit = 15 as an example.

First argument 0 is the starting point from where you want to get messages.

meat.getAll(0, function (err, messages) {
  if (!err) {
    console.log(messages);
  }
});

Share all recent public

The default limit is set to 10. You can change this by setting meat.limit = 15 as an example.

First argument 0 is the starting point from where you want to get messages.

meat.shareRecent(0, function (err, messages) {
  if (!err) {
    console.log(messages);
  }
});

Share a single public message that you authored

meat.shareOne(1, function (err, message) {
  if (!err) {
    console.log(message);
  }
});

Share a public message that someone else authored

Assumptions: externalMessage is a meatspace message from a separate server.

meat.share(externalMessage, meat.postUrl, function (err, message) {
  if (!err) {
    console.log(message);
  }
});

Get all subscriptions

meat.getSubscriptions(function (err, subscriptoins) {
  if (!err) {
    console.log(subscriptions);
  }
});

Subscribe to someone else's meatspace

meat.subscribe('http://some.other.url/recent.json', function (err, url) {
  if (!err) {
    console.log(url);
  }
});

Unsubscribe to a meatspace

meat.unsubscribe('http://some.other.url/recent.json', function (err, status) {
  if (!err) {
    console.log(status);
  }
});

Get most recent micrologs from a subscribed meatspace

meat.getSubscriptionRecent('http://some.other.url/recent.json', function (err, messages) {
  if (!err) {
    console.log(messages);
  }
});

Delete the database

meat.flush();

Tests

make test

Important notes and tips

• Your posts will not be automatically protected from XSS so that is up to you to handle if you decide to use this in a web app. If you want to work from an existing example, feel free to fork generaltoast.
• If you want to back up your messages in a secondary database such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, just add this after a successfull callback in meat.add, meat.del, etc.