SpiffyTitles

Displays link titles when posted in a channel. This plugin has the following goals:

Extreme reliability and in the case of failure, robust error reporting to ease debugging. Errors are logged.
The ability to customize features that could conceivably need to change (within reason)

Using SpiffyTitles

You should disable the Web plugin and any other plugins that show link titles for best results

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

Default value: ^ %s

Example output:

^ Google.com

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

Default value: ^ %s :: Views: %s :: Rating: %s

Example output:

^ Snoop Dogg - Pump Pump feat. Lil Malik :: Views: 188,681 :: Rating: 4.82

useBold - Whether to bold the title. Defaults to False

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

ignoredDomainPatterns - a comma separated list of strings that are regular expressions to match against URLs posted in channels.

Examples

Ignore all domains matching *.tk

    (.*)\.tk

Ignore all domains matching *.net

    (.*)\.net

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.

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: