BusyBird: a multi-level Web-based timeline viewer

BusyBird is a personal Web-based timeline viewer application. You can think of it as a Twitter client, but BusyBird is more generic and focused on viewing.

BusyBird accepts data called Statuses from its RESTful Web API. The received statuses are stored to one or more Timelines . You can view those statuses in a timeline by a Web browser.

For more information, visit https://metacpan.org/pod/BusyBird

SCREENSHOTS

https://github.com/debug-ito/busybird/wiki/Screenshots

QUICK START

Example in Ubuntu Linux.

• Install make and curl

    $ sudo apt-get install build-essential curl
  

• Install

    $ curl -L http://cpanmin.us/ | perl - -n BusyBird
    $ export PERL5LIB="$HOME/perl5/lib/perl5:$PERL5LIB"
    $ export PATH="$HOME/perl5/bin:$PATH"
  

• Run

    $ busybird
    Twiggy: Accepting connections at http://127.0.0.1:5000/
  

• Open timelines

    $ firefox http://localhost:5000/
  

• Post a status

    $ curl -d '{"text":"hello, world!"}' http://localhost:5000/timelines/home/statuses.json
  

See https://metacpan.org/pod/BusyBird for detail.

TUTORIAL

See https://metacpan.org/pod/BusyBird::Manual::Tutorial

TRY WITHOUT INSTALLATION

You can try BusyBird without installing it. This is recommended if you try a development version. (You need cpanm command. See App::cpanminus for detail).

$ git clone https://github.com/debug-ito/busybird.git
$ cd busybird
$ cpanm Module::Build::Prereqs::FromCPANfile
$ cpanm --installdeps .
$ perl Build.PL
$ ./Build
$ ./Build test

...and to start BusyBird, type

$ perl -Iblib/lib blib/script/busybird

AUTHOR

Toshio Ito

• https://github.com/debug-ito
• debug.ito [at] gmail.com