Dave Winer scripting

I write outliners, web CMSes, feed readers, blogging software, etc. All of it is here on GitHub. Almost everything is open source licensed.

scripting / iconv-lite-test.js

Created April 18, 2018 16:06

This is the code that doesn't work. Helllp.

	const iconv = require ("iconv-lite");
	const request = require ("request");
	const utils = require ("daveutils");

	var feedUrl = "https://www.presseportal.de/rss/dienststelle_110972.rss2";

	function getCharset (httpResponse) {
	var contentType = httpResponse.headers ["content-type"];
	if (contentType !== undefined) {
	var encoding = utils.trimWhitespace (utils.stringNthField (contentType, ";", 2));

scripting / iconvLiteExample.js

Last active April 18, 2018 16:24

Using iconv-lite to do character conversion of HTTP requests

	const iconv = require ("iconv-lite");
	const request = require ("request");
	const utils = require ("daveutils");

	var feedUrl = "https://www.presseportal.de/rss/dienststelle_110972.rss2";

	function getCharset (httpResponse) {
	var contentType = httpResponse.headers ["content-type"];
	if (contentType !== undefined) {
	var encoding = utils.trimWhitespace (utils.stringNthField (contentType, ";", 2));

scripting / config.json

Created June 4, 2018 17:34

An example of a PagePark config.json file that specified a path on S3 to serve from

	{
	"s3ServeFromPath": "/publicfolder.io"
	}

scripting / s3FolderExists.js

Created June 5, 2018 17:44

JS code to ask AWS if an S3 path is a folder with files in it

	function s3FolderExists (s3path, callback) {
	var flHaveCalledBack = false;
	var splitpath = s3.splitPath (s3path);
	var pathToLookFor = splitpath.Key + "/";
	s3.listObjects (s3path, function (obj) {
	if (obj.flLastObject === undefined) {
	if (utils.beginsWith (obj.Key, pathToLookFor)) {
	if (!flHaveCalledBack) {
	callback (true);
	flHaveCalledBack = true;

scripting / config.json

Created June 6, 2018 16:13

Example of config.json used to redirect a single file in PagePark

	{
	"#pagePark": {
	"urlRedirect": "http://scripting.com/"
	}
	}

scripting / rpcCall.json

Last active June 11, 2018 18:16

Egregious hack to add date and base64 types to JSON for XML-RPC

	{
	"methodCall": {
	"methodName": "examples.echoParams",
	"params": [
	"#dateTime=2018-06-10T19:41:06.199Z",
	"#base64=aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ="
	]
	}
	}

scripting / config.json

Created July 6, 2018 14:44

A config.json for PagePark that sets the default type for files that don't have extensions.

{"defaultType": "text/html"}

scripting / userData.json

Created August 2, 2018 19:25

An example of the data that Twitter gives an app about a user (me)

	{
	"id": 3839,
	"id_str": "3839",
	"name": "scripting.com",
	"screen_name": "davewiner",
	"location": "New York",
	"profile_location": null,
	"description": "American software developer, blogger, inventor of new media types.",
	"url": "https://t.co/ztgzDGiyOj",
	"entities": {

scripting / package.json

Last active September 12, 2018 02:26

Getting the contents of a GitHub repository using the contents API

	{
	"name": "repocontents",
	"description": "Code to get the contents of a respository.",
	"author": "Dave Winer <[email protected]>",
	"version": "0.4.0",
	"main": "repocontents.js",
	"scripts": {
	"start": "node repocontents.js"
	},
	"dependencies" : {

scripting / yamlize.js

Last active September 23, 2018 00:46

Convert between YAML and JSON and vice versa


	const utils = require ("daveutils");
	const yaml = require ("js-yaml");

	function yamlIze (jsontext) {
	var jstruct = JSON.parse (jsontext);
	const delimiter = "---\n";
	var text = jstruct.text;
	delete jstruct.text;
	var s = delimiter + yaml.safeDump (jstruct) + delimiter + text;