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StatusNet Connector
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Main authors Tobias Diekershoff and Michael Vogel.
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With this addon to Friendica you can give your user the possibility to post
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their public messages to any StatusNet instance. The messages will be strapped
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their rich context and shortened to to the character limit of the StatusNet
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instance in question if necessary. If shortening of the message was performed a
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link will be added to the notice pointing to the original message on your
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server.
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Requirements
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Due to the distributed nature of the StatusNet network, each user who wishes to
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forward public messages to a StatusNet account has to get the OAuth credentials
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for themselves, which makes this addon a little bit more user unfriendly than
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the Twitter Plugin is. Nothing too geeky though!
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The inclusion of a shorturl for the original posting in cases when the message
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was longer than the maximal allowed notice length requires it, that you have
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PHP5+ and curl on your server.
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Where to find
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In the Friendica git repository /addon/statusnet/, this directory contains all
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required PHP files (including the [Twitter OAuth library] [1] by Abraham Williams,
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MIT licensed and the [Slinky library] [2] by Beau Lebens, BSD license), a CSS file
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for styling of the user configuration and an image to Sign in with StatusNet.
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[1]:https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth
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[2]:http://dentedreality.com.au/projects/slinky
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Configuration
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=============
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Global Configuration
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--------------------
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**If you have configured an admin account, you can configure this plugin from
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the admin panel.** First activate it from the plugin section of the panel.
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Afterwards you will have a separate configuration page for the plugin, where
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you can provide a set of globally available OAuth credentials for different
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StatusNet pages which will be available for all users of your server.
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If you don't use the admin panel, you can configure the relay using the
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.htconfig.php file of your friendica installation. To activate the relay add
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it's name to the list of activated addons.
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$a->config['system']['addon'] = "statusnet, ..."
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If you want to provide preconfigured StatusNet instances for your user add the
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credentials for them by adding
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$a->config['statusnet']['sites'] = array (
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array ('sitename' => 'identi.ca', 'apiurl' => 'https://identi.ca/api/',
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'consumersecret' => 'OAuth Consumer Secret here', 'consumerkey' => 'OAuth
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Consumer Key here'),
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array ('sitename' => 'Some other Server', 'apiurl' =>
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'http://status.example.com/api/', 'consumersecret' => 'OAuth
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Consumer Secret here', 'consumerkey' => 'OAuth Consumer Key here')
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);
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to the config file.
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Regardless of providing global OAuth credentials for your users or not, they
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can always add their own OAuth-Key and -Secret thus enable the relay for any
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StatusNet instance they may have an account at.
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User Configuration
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------------------
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When the addon is activated the user has to aquire three things in order to
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connect to the StatusNet account of choice.
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* the base URL for the StatusNet API, for identi.ca this is https://identi.ca/api/
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* OAuth Consumer key & secret
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To get the OAuth Consumer key pair the user has to (a) ask her Friendica admin
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if a pair already exists or (b) has to register the Friendica server as a
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client application on the StatusNet server. This can be done from the account
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settings under "Connect -> Connections -> Register an OAuth client application
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-> Register a new application".
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During the registration of the OAuth client remember the following:
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* there is no callback url
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* register a desktop client
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* with read & write access
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* the Source URL should be the URL of your Friendica server
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After the required credentials for the application are stored in the
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configuration you have to actually connect your Friendica account with
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StatusNet. To do so follow the Sign in with StatusNet button, allow the access
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and copy the security code into the plugin configuration. Friendica will then
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try to acquire the final OAuth credentials from the API, if successful the
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plugin settings will allow you to select to post your public messages to your
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StatusNet account.
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Mirroring of Public Postings
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To avoid endless loops of public postings that are send to StatusNet and then
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mirrored back into your friendica stream you have to set the _name of the
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application you registered there_ of your friendica node is using to post to
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StatusNet in the .htconfig.php file.
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$a->config['statusnet']['application_name'] = "yourname here";
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Connector Options for the User
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* **Allow posting to StatusNet** If you want your _public postings_ being
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optionally posted to your associated StatusNet accout as well, you need to
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check this box.
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* **Send public postings to StatusNet by default** if you want to have _all_
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your public postings beeing send to your StatusNet account you need to check
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this button as well. Otherwise you have to enable the relay of your postings
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in the ACL dialog (click the lock button) before posting an entry.
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* **Mirror all posts from statusnet that are no replies or repeated messages**
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_TODO add info about the mirroring_
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* **Shortening method that optimizes the post** by default friendica checks how
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many characters your StatusNet instance allows you to use for a posting and
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if a posting is longer then this amount of characters it will shorten the
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message posted on StatusNet and add a short link back to the original
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posting. Optionally you can check this box to have the shortening of the
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message use an optimization algorithm. _TODO add infos how this is
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optimized_
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* **Send linked #-tags and @-names to StatusNet** if you want your #-tags and
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@-mentions linked to the friendica network, check this box. If you want to
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have StatusNet handle these things for the relayed end of the posting chain,
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uncheck it.
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* **Clear OAuth configuration** if you want to remove the currently associated
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StatusNet account from your friendica account you have to check this box and
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then hit the submit button. The saved settings will be deleted and you have
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to reconfigure the StatusNet connector to be able to relay your public
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postings to a StatusNet account.
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License
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=======
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The _StatusNet Connector_ is licensed unter the [3-clause BSD license][3] see the
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LICENSE file in the addons directory.
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[3]: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
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