Day 14: XRay like-lookup
I’ve been posting likes to Seblog for a few weeks now. I like the likes, but they al looked like ‘Seb likes this’, so I was like: looks like I like to fix my likes.
Today I hooked up XRay to Seblog, so now my site can see things on URLs I link to. (I actually run a version on a ’secret’ URL, to keep things on my own server.) This way I can grab the name of the post I liked and show that, together with the author. If it has no name, but a photo, it says ‘Seb likes a photo’. It adds the author if it knows who it is. If it really doesn’t know anything about the page, it still defaults to ‘this’. I can fix those manual if I want.
XRay’s format consists of two parts: a data
part, with information about the page it looked at, and a refs
part, which is a list of URLs that are mentioned or embedded on the page. Retweets, for example, show the original tweet in the refs
. I added a refs
field to my pages, where I store the data
part under the url of the page I mentioned and the refs
part under the urls they came with.
An example, with Kirby Data and YAML:
Like-of: http://example.com/a-post
----
Refs:
"http://example.com/a-post":
name: A Post
author: Someone
repost-of: http://another-example.com/a-photo
"http://another-example.com/a-photo":
photo: http://another-example.com/a-photo/img.jpg
author: Someone Else
I can be more efficient with the moment I grab the data. For example: to send webmentions, my server already reaches out to all links in the post to find their Webmention Endpoint. If I parse the page then, I don’t need another call from XRay later on.
I also need to fiddle a bit with the things I want to display. But for now it’s okay: my server has the data for my likes. I even download pictures if a post has a photo
property. I now not only own my likes, I also have my own archive of the things I like.