fabslab / meatspace-chat

Chat with WebRTC, LevelDB and Sockets

Meatspace Chat

Setting up

cp local.json-dist local.json
cp clients.json-dist clients.json
npm install
npm -g install nodemon
bower install
npm run-script grunt build
npm start

Messages

You can listen to the socket to receive incoming messages or use long polling at either https://chat.meatspac.es or http://chat-staging.meatspac.es.

A meatspace chat message is a nested dictionary in the form

{
    chat:
    {
        value:
        {
            media: data:image/gif;base64,<base64 data>,
            message: '<message; may be empty>,
            ttl: 600000,
            created: <time-string>,
            fingerprint: <32-byte hex>
        }
    },
    key: <unique message key>
}

Mute feature

If you mute a user then you won't see any new posts from them at that machine and IP. There is an unmute button below the meatcube logo on the page.

Native apps (iOS/Android) or Non-web clients

If you need an apiKey to post from your app, contact me at [e-mail] and I will try to hook you up! You will get access to staging server to see if everything works and see if it is appropriate for the production server (which I will give you a new apiKey).

API

If you are doing native or non-web calls to the API, you will first need a valid apiKey and then you can make the following calls:

Push a new message through a socket request and provide the following data:

{
    apiKey: <apiKey>,
    message: <text message; can be empty>,
    picture: data:image/gif;base64,<a base64 blob of the gif data>,
    fingerprint: <a unique identifier for the user posting from the client, preferably md5-hashed>
}