{"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 – IRC to Yammer Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jammer is a quick 1hr project that clones IRC discussion on Yammer.<\/p>\n

Yammer is a social network for internal use by organisations. It’s a great way to broadcast information and have asynchronous discussion, and simple enough for anyone to use.<\/p>\n

Developers already have a great forum for asynchronous discussion – 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

I haven’t used Yammer for some time so I thought I’d remind myself how to use the API by building a bridge between IRC and Yammer. Here’s the result of just over an hour’s work:<\/p>\n

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

The code is on github at https:\/\/github.com\/benjiman\/jammer<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Jammer\"\n

Here’s how you run Jammer:<\/p>\n

 $ 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     \r\n<\/pre>\n
Then in your IRC client:<\/p>\n
 \/msg jammer auth<\/pre>\n
Click the link provided, approve the app, and copy the authentication token back with<\/p>\n
 \/msg jammer auth <\/pre>\n
Now simply join the channel the bot is in and start talking and all messages will be cross-posted to Yammer.<\/p>\n
You can get a client id and client secret in Yammer by registering a new application.<\/p>\n
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
For more information read<\/h3>\n
The Yammer API documentation<\/a>
\nThere’s a tutorial for PircBot (Easily write IRC bots in Java) <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jammer is a quick 1hr project that clones IRC discussion on Yammer. Yammer is a social network for internal use by organisations. It’s a great way to broadcast information and have asynchronous discussion, and simple enough for anyone to use. Developers already have a great forum for asynchronous discussion – IRC. IRC is great for…  Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n