Back channeling

Back channeling is a real-time BBS tool.

It has the features as follows:

• Setup easily
• Supports markdown format
• Supports voice chat
• Curating of comments

Get started

On-premise

Start a datomic transactor.

% bin/transactor

Start a back channeling.

% DATOMIC_URL=datomic🆓//localhost:4334/bc bin/back_channeling

The default port is 3009.

Heroku

or

1. Git clone.

% git clone https://github.com/kawasima/back-channeling.git

1. Create a heroku application.

% cd back-channeling
% heroku create

1. Deploy the back-channeling.

% git push heroku master

It takes only 3 minutes!!

API

When you signup, select a type of bot account. You must remember the authorization code.

First, you get token by authorization code.

POST /api/token

code=[authorization code]

You will get a response as follows:

{"access_token": , "name": "bot", "email": "[email protected]"}

You must add the token to HTTP headers when you request to BackChanneling web APIs.

curl  -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Token xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' [API url]

And if you send a POST request, Add Content-Type to the request header.

curl -X POST -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Authorization:  Token xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' [API url]

Board

Get a board data.

GET /api/board/:board-name

An example of response as follows:

{
  "id":17592186045424,
  "name":"default",
  "description":"Default board",
  "threads":[
    {"id":17592186045428,
     "title":"aaa",
     "since":"20150722T101724.515Z",
     "last-updated":"20150722T110108.015Z",
     "resnum":1000,"watchers":[]},
    {"id":17592186045651,"title":"hohoho",
     "since":"20150722T104559.129Z",
     "last-updated":"20150929T123754.988Z",
     "watchers":["bot2"],"resnum":1000}
  ]
}

Thread

GET /api/thread/:thread-id

New thread

POST /api/board/:board-name/threads

{"thread/name": "New thread", "comment/content": "Hello"}

Post comment

POST /api/thread/:thread-id/comments

{"comment/content": "Hello"}