@movq@www.uninformativ.de Is there a good way to get jenny to do a one-off fetch of a feed, for when you want to fill in missing parts of a thread? I just added @slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net to my private follow file just because @prologic@twtxt.net keeps responding to the feed :-P and I want to know what he’s commenting on even though I don’t want to see every new slashdot twt.
@falsifian@www.falsifian.org You mean fetching the feed temporarily and then discarding all its twts again? 🤔 I don’t think there’s an easy way to do that, other than filtering in your mail client, yeah. 🤔
@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Ah, I see. 🤔 Maybe I’ll add that. To be honest, I have the same “problem” regarding the slashdot feed. 😅 It’s mostly stuff that I’m not interested in – but from time to time someone replies and then I want to see what it’s about.
@prologic@twtxt.net @falsifian@www.falsifian.org This just popped up in my head: How about adding a “fetch context” feature? Point jenny to some mail file that contains a twt (or pipe it to stdin) and it will try to auto-discover and fetch all related things. Like, if it sees something like @<falsifian https://www.falsifian.org/twtxt.txt>, then it will look in https://www.falsifian.org/twtxt.txt for a twt with hash tkjafka. Maybe even do this recursively until there are no new references anymore. This process could include explicitly querying some user-configurable Yarn pods as well. 🤔
It won’t always work. There’s no guarantee that tkjafka will be present in the given URL.
Hmm. 🤔
(The jenny code is getting a bit long and convoluted. I feel the need to refactor this quite a bit. That’s why I’m not implementing any of this right away.)
@falsifian@www.falsifian.org I’ve pushed a draft into the git repo.
You can now do a “oneshot fetch” for a URL:
jenny oneshot-fetch --url https://feeds.twtxt.net/hacker-news-newest/twtxt.txt --nick hacker-news-newest
This fetches the entire feed, which might be too much. So there’s also this, which only fetches a single twt:
jenny oneshot-fetch --url https://feeds.twtxt.net/hacker-news-newest/twtxt.txt --nick hacker-news-newest --only-twt-hash r6rbinq
Let me know what you think. 🤔
@falsifian@www.falsifian.org @bender@twtxt.net I pushed an alternative implementation to the fetch-context branch. This integrates the whole thing into mutt/jenny.
You will want to configure a new mutt hotkey, similar to the “reply” hotkey:
macro index,pager <esc>C "\
<enter-command> set my_pipe_decode=\$pipe_decode nopipe_decode<Enter>\
<pipe-message> jenny -c<Enter>\
<enter-command> set pipe_decode=\$my_pipe_decode; unset my_pipe_decode<Enter>" \
"Try to fetch context of current twt, like a missing root twt"
This pipes the mail to jenny -c. jenny will try to find the thread hash and the URL and then fetch it. (If there’s no URL or if the specific twt cannot be found in that particular feed, it could query a Yarn pod. That is not yet implemented, though.)
The whole thing looks like this:
https://movq.de/v/0d0e76a180/jenny.mp4
In other words, when there’s a missing root twt, you press a hotkey to fetch it, done.
I think I like this version better. 🤔
(This needs a lot of testing. 😆)