This is a web service that implements the Salmon distributed comment protocol for Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. It's deployed at https://salmon-unofficial.appspot.com/ .
It's part of a suite of projects that implement the OStatus federation protocols for the major social networks. The other projects include portablecontacts-, activitystreams-, webfinger-, and ostatus-unofficial.
There are many related projects. sockethub is a similar "polyglot" approach, but more focused on writing than reading. IndieWeb Comments are a bottom-up, decentralized approach where each user posts their comments to their own site first.
License: This project is placed in the public domain.
Just head over to https://salmon-unofficial.appspot.com/ and connect your Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ account!
We're not at all confident in the interoperability and robustness. We've only done a very limited amount of testing. We should test against more Salmon-capable endpoints and fix the bugs we find.
We should probably also separate the Salmon conversion logic out of this so it can be used as a library as well as a service.
- Allow passing OAuth tokens as keyword args.
- Expose the initial OAuth permission flow. The hard work is already done, we just need to let users trigger it programmatically.
- ...
We'd also love to add more sites! Off the top of my head, YouTube, Tumblr, WordPress.com, Sina Weibo, Qzone, and RenRen would be good candidates. If you're looking to get started, implementing a new site is a good place to start. It's pretty self contained and the existing sites are good examples to follow, but it's a decent amount of work, so you'll be familiar with the whole project by the end.
Pull requests are welcome! Feel free to ping me with any questions.
Most dependencies are included as git submodules. Be sure to run git submodule init after cloning this repo.
You can run the unit tests with ./alltests.py. They depend on the App Engine SDK and mox, both of which you'll need to install yourself.
Deploy command: ~/google_appengine/appcfg.py --oauth2 update .