Important

This project is now part of revoltchat/backend @ crates/services/january.

January

Description

Image proxy and metadata scraper.

Features:

• Can scrape metadata from websites, e.g. OpenGraph
• Can scrape embeds from websites, e.g. YouTube, Spotify

Stack

• Actix

Usage

• Use /embed?url=<url> to generate an embed for given URL.
• Use /proxy?url=<url> to fetch and serve a remote image.

Resources

Revolt

• Revolt Project Board (Submit feature requests here)
• Revolt Testers Server
• Contribution Guide

CLI Commands

Command	Description
cargo build	Build/compile January.
cargo run	Run January.
cargo fmt	Format January. Not intended for PR use to avoid accidentally formatting unformatted files.

Contributing

The contribution guide is located at developers.revolt.chat/contributing. Please note that a pull request should only take care of one issue so that we can review it quickly.

License

January is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.

To-do

• Use LRU cache for data. See uluru
• Full support for OpenGraph. See ogp.me
• Full support for Twitter cards. See a and b.
• Add max length for strings from meta tags.

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