SpiffyTitles

The ONLY gluten-free plugin for displaying link titles.

Requirements

• This plugin requires Python 2.7. It might work in other versions, though.
• If you need to install certifi you may have to restart the bot afterwards

Notable features

• Configurable template so you can decide how titles are displayed and what they say
• Additional information about Youtube videos
• Additional information about imgur links
• Rate limiting to mitigate abuse
• Configurable white/black list to control where titles are disabled
• Configurable list of user agents
• Ability to ignore domains using a regular expression

Check out the available options

Using SpiffyTitles

• Install the requirements: pip install -r SpiffyTitles/requirements.txt --user --upgrade
• You should unload the Web plugin and any other plugins that show link titles for best results

To unload the Web plugin:

!unload Web

Load SpiffyTitles:

!load SpiffyTitles

Tip: Observe the logs when loading the plugin and afterwards to see what's going on under the hood.

Available Options

Default handler

defaultHandlerEnabled - Whether to show additional information about links that aren't handled elsewhere. You'd really only want to disable this if all of the other handlers were enabled. In this scenario, the bot would only show information for websites with custom handlers, like Youtube, IMDB, and imgur.

defaultTitleTemplate - This is the template used when showing the title of a link.

Default value: ^ {{title}}

Example output:

^ Google.com

Youtube handler

Note: as of April 20 2015 version 2 of the Youtube API was deprecated. As a result, this feature now requires a developer key.

• Obtain a developer key
• Go to the Credentials area, choose Public API access and Create new Key
• You may specify allowed IPs but be aware that this setting seems to cache. It is easier to test using the URL listed in the console to verify requests from that machine are working.
• Make sure the YouTube API is enabled in the developer console.
• Set the key: !config supybot.plugins.SpiffyTitles.youtubeDeveloperKey your_developer_key_here
• Reload: !reload SpiffyTitles
• Observe the logs to check for errors

youtubeHandlerEnabled - Whether to show additional information about Youtube links

youtubeTitleTemplate - This is the template used when showing the title of a YouTube video

Default value: ^ {{title}} :: Duration: {{duration}} :: Views: {{view_count}}

Example output:

^ Snoop Dogg - Pump Pump feat. Lil Malik :: Duration: 00:04:41 :: Views: 189,120

imdb handler

Queries the OMDB API to get additional information about IMDB links

imdbHandlerEnabled - Whether to show additional information about IMDB links

imdbTemplate - This is the template used for IMDB links

Default value: ^ {{Title}} ({{Year}}, {{Country}}) - Rating: {{imdbRating}} :: {{Plot}}

imgur handler

imgurTemplate - This is the template used when showing information about an imgur link.

Default value

^ {%if section %} [{{section}}] {% endif -%}{%- if title -%} {{title}} :: {% endif %}{{type}} {{width}}x{{height}} {{file_size}} :: {{view_count}} views :: {%if nsfw == None %}not sure if safe for work{% elif nsfw == True %}not safe for work!{% else %}safe for work{% endif %}

Example output:

^ [pics] He really knows nothing... :: image/jpeg 700x1575 178.8KiB :: 809 views :: safe for work

imgurAlbumTemplate - This is the template used when showing information about an imgur album link.

Default value

^ {%if section %} [{{section}}] {% endif -%}{%- if title -%} {{title}} :: {% endif %}{{image_count}} images :: {{view_count}} views :: {%if nsfw == None %}not sure if safe for work{% elif nsfw == True %}not safe for work!{% else %}safe for work{% endif %}

Example output:

^ [compsci] Regex Fractals :: 33 images :: 21,453 views :: safe for work

Using the imgur handler

• You'll need to register an application with imgur

• Select "OAuth 2 authorization without a callback URL"

• Once registered, set your client id and client secret and reload SpiffyTitles

  !config supybot.plugins.SpiffyTitles.imgurClientID

  !config supybot.plugins.SpiffyTitles.imgurClientSecret

  !reload SpiffyTitles

Notes on the imgur handler

• If there is a problem reaching the API the default handler will be used as a fallback. See logs for details.
• The API seems to report information on the originally uploaded image and not other formats
• If you see something from the imgur api that you want and is not available in the above example, please open an issue!

useBold - Whether to bold the title. Default value: False

linkCacheLifetimeInSeconds - Caches the title of links. This is useful for reducing API usage and improving performance. Default value: 60

wallClockTimeoutInSeconds - Timeout for total elapsed time when retrieving a title. If you set this value too high, the bot may time out. Default value: 8 (seconds). You must !reload SpiffyTitles for this setting to take effect.

channelWhitelist - a comma separated list of channels in which titles should be displayed. If "", titles will be shown in all channels. Default value: ""

channelBlacklist - a comma separated list of channels in which titles should never be displayed. If "", titles will be shown in all channels. Default value: ""

About white/black lists

• If channelWhitelist and channelBlacklist are empty, then titles will be displayed in every channel
• If channelBlacklist has #foo, then titles will be displayed in every channel except #foo
• If channelWhitelist has #foo then channelBlacklist will be ignored

Examples

Show titles in every channel except #foo

!config supybot.plugins.SpiffyTitles.channelBlacklist #foo

Only show titles in #bar

!config supybot.plugins.SpiffyTitles.channelWhitelist #bar

Only show titles in #baz and #bar

!config supybot.plugins.SpiffyTitles.channelWhitelist #baz,#bar

Remove channel whitelist

!config supybot.plugins.SpiffyTitles.channelWhitelist ""

ignoredDomainPattern - ignore domains matching this pattern. Default value: ""

Tip

You can ignore domains that you know aren't websites. This prevents a request from being made at all.

Examples

Ignore all links with the domain buzzfeed.com

!config supybot.plugins.SpiffyTitles.ignoredDomainPattern (buzzfeed\.com)

Ignore *.tk and buzzfeed.com

!config supybot.plugins.SpiffyTitles.ignoredDomainPattern (\.tk|buzzfeed\.com)

userAgents - A comma separated list of strings of user agents randomly chosen when requesting.

urlRegularExpression - A regular expression used to match URLs. You shouldn't need to change this.

FAQ

Q: How can I only show information about certain links?

A: You can use the settings defaultHandlerEnabled, youtubeHandlerEnabled, imgurHandlerEnabled, and imdbHandlerEnabled to choose which links you want to show information about. You must also !reload SpiffyTitles after changing these settings.

Q: Why not use the Web plugin?

A: My experience was that it didn't work very well and lacked the ability to customize the options I wanted to change.

Q: What about Supybot-Titler ?

A: I couldn't get this to work on my system and it has a lot of features I didn't want

Q: It doesn't work for me. What can I do?

A: Open an issue and include at minimum the following:

• Brief description of the problem
• Any errors that were logged (Look for the ones prefixed "SpiffyTitles")
• How to reproduce the effect
• Any other information you think would be helpful