{"id":141,"date":"2012-11-09T00:35:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T23:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjiweber.co.uk\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2012-11-09T07:49:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T06:49:44","slug":"jammer-irc-to-yammer-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjiweber.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/jammer-irc-to-yammer-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammer &#8211; IRC to Yammer Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Jammer is a quick 1hr project that clones IRC discussion on Yammer.<\/p>\n<p>Yammer is a social network for internal use by organisations. It&#8217;s a great way to broadcast information and have asynchronous discussion, and simple enough for anyone to use.<\/p>\n<p>Developers already have a great forum for asynchronous discussion &#8211; IRC. IRC is great for developers to use, but most irc client software is not particularly user friendly. Unless you idle in the channel all the time you will miss scrollback.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t used Yammer for some time so I thought I&#8217;d remind myself how to use the API by building a bridge between IRC and Yammer. Here&#8217;s the result of just over an hour&#8217;s work:<\/p>\n<p>Jammer is a quick proof of concept IRC bot that will sit in an IRC channel and clone messages from authorised users to a specified group in Yammer. It lets you keep a record and publish discussion for others in the organisation to see.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Jammer on Github\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/benjiman\/jammer\">The code is on github at https:\/\/github.com\/benjiman\/jammer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It might be useful to someone else as a tutorial for getting started with the Yammer API and how to authenticate with oauth. There are only 3 short Java files.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/files.benjiweber.co.uk\/b\/jammer.png\" alt=\"Jammer\" \/>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you run Jammer:<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\"> $ git clone https:\/\/github.com\/benjiman\/jammer.github\r\n $ cd jammer\r\n $ mvn compile\r\n $ mvn assembly:single\r\n $ java -jar .\/target\/jammer-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar <irc server (in quotes)> <channel> <yammer group id> <yammer client id> <yammer client secret>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Then in your IRC client:<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\"> \/msg jammer auth<\/pre>\n<p>Click the link provided, approve the app, and copy the authentication token back with<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\"> \/msg jammer auth <token><\/pre>\n<p>Now simply join the channel the bot is in and start talking and all messages will be cross-posted to Yammer.<\/p>\n<p>You can get a client id and client secret in Yammer by registering a new application.<\/p>\n<p>You can get a group id by visiting the group on Yammer.com and copying the id at the end of the URL<\/p>\n<h3>For more information read<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Yammer Docs\" href=\"http:\/\/developer.yammer.com\/introduction\/\">The Yammer API documentation<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Pircbot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jibble.org\/pircbot.php\">There&#8217;s a tutorial for PircBot (Easily write IRC bots in Java) <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammer is a quick 1hr project that clones IRC discussion on Yammer. 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