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86 lines
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Isso – Ich schrei sonst
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You love static blog generators (especially [Acrylamid][1] \*cough\*) and the only
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option to interact with the community is [Disqus][2]. There's nothing wrong with
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it, but if you care about the privacy of your audience you should better use
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a comment system that is under your control. This is, were Isso comes into play.
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[1]: https://github.com/posativ/acrylamid
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[2]: http://disqus.com/
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Current status: `nosetests specs/`. Ran 11 tests in 0.570s.
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## Features/Roadmap
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- transparent and lightweight backend (SQLite or plain text files)
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- simple JSON API (hence comments are JavaScript-only)
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- create comments and modify/delete within a time range
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- Ping/Trackback support (not implemented yet)
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- simple admin interface (work in progress)
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- easy integration, similar to Disqus (work in progress)
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- spam filtering using [http:bl](https://www.projecthoneypot.org/) (not implemented yet)
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## Hacking
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You'll need [2.6 ≤ python ≤ 2.7](http://python.org), [ender.js](http://ender.no.de/) and
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[YUI Compressor](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/). Then run:
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$ git clone https://github.com/posativ/isso.git && cd isso/
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$ make init
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$ make js
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$ isso --test
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Then go to <http://localhost:8000/static/post.html> to write a comment.
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## Installation
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Still a TODO, but later on it's simply `easy_install isso`.
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## Migrating from Disqus
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Go to [disqus.com](https://disqus.com/) and export your "forum" as XML. If you
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use Firefox and you get a 403, try a webkit browser, Disqus did something very
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weird with that download link. Next:
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$ isso import /path/to/ur/dump.xml
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That's it. Visit your admin page to see all threads. If it doesn't work for you,
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please file in a bug report \*including\* your dump.
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## API
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To fetch all comments for a path, run
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$ curl -H "Accept: application/json" http://example.org/comment/foo-bar/
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To write a comment, you have to POST a JSON dictionary with the following key-value
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pairs. Text is mandatory otherwise you'll get a 400 Bad Request. You'll also get
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a 400 when your JSON is invalid.
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Let's say you want to comment on /foo-bar/
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$ curl http://example.org/comment/foo-bar/new -H "Accept: application/json" -X POST -d \
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'{
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"text": "Lorem ipsum ...",
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"name": "Hans", "email": "foo@bla.org", "website": "http://blog/log/"
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}'
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This will set a cookie, that expires in a few minutes (15 minutes per default). This
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cookie allows you do modify or delete your comment. Don't try to modify that cookie,
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it is cryptographically signed. If your cookie is outdated or modified, you'll get
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a 403 Forbidden.
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For each comment you'll post, you get an unique cookie. Let's try to remove your comment:
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$ curl -H ... -X DELETE http://example.org/comment/foo-bar/1
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If your comment has been referenced by another comment, your comment will be cleared but
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not deleted to retain depending comments.
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## Alternatives
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- [Juvia](https://github.com/phusion/juvia) – Ruby on Rails
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- [Tildehash.com](http://www.tildehash.com/?article=why-im-reinventing-disqus) – PHP
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- [SO: Unobtrusive, self-hosted comments](http://stackoverflow.com/q/2053217)
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