Paul Mison paulm@husk.org Fotango Ltd scribot is a 'bot that scribes' scribot is 'an interesting collection of links apparently collected by a group of people in order to share among themselves' so it's both a bot and the web front end to the data the bot collects how do I add links? just go onto an IRC channel and say: 'scribot: http://london.pm.org/ # a site I like' this gets stored scribot's old front end was on astray.com/scribot used URI::Find, and presented entries (backwards) archives were updated manually, then not at all this was BAD. Things had to change. how do you archive data? possibly by nick. bad idea. we could just have implemented a search over the raw text file usually, though, archives are by date scribot merely recorded nicks and comments (there's an aside here about link catching, which I can go in to) later, I forced Leon to add a patch to record days what about the old data? I have a lot of IRC logs ... about 75 MB or so, I reckon. irc logs are dated, and I'm on channel a lot ... so I have the dates most things are 'scribotted' at first, I read in the raw text keyed on the line of the entry value is a hash of time and nick then, read in the logs crossreference by lines, and add nicks and dates even my logs don't cover everything about 1800 entries have no timestamp another 50 or so were modified I blame muttley still, diff is a wonderful thing Leon got sent the old entries with dates added these to the newer entries put them into an SQLite database and added a SOAP api finally I had the infrastructure and I could build the glossy bit main aims were to make the site easier to scan although I also played with CSS a bit there was a bit of trial and error ... but the first idea kind of worked split into days (easily done with loops) uses TT so it's easy to reformat it if needs be 'simple' vs 'advanced' search the original idea was a dated archive finally we've added this now kind of still the problem of the undated stuff you can find it with search, though it's dead easy to use it's grown when people wanted it to underpromise, overdeliver (managing to screw that up) for coming and for listening