Charcoal HQ

3:25 AM

I'm working on something that uses server-side.

It looks like it's storing it in a database (server) vs. using it in an app or giving it to the user (client)

@hichris123 @Undo I got an easy way to make access tokens

With the key: oBhIoUA)i7UXiHOFqgMaPw((

agent86ix.github.io/stackapps/seci

@ManishEarth It doesn't have write_access ;(

yes it does

it does inbox magic

No write_accessy thingies

3:36 AM

oh

@Undo is the write access specified in scope?

@ManishEarth Yes

So... does it not work?

@Undo Try stackexchange.com/oauth/…

@ManishEarth Yup

> Ability to create and change content

A fully loaded one looks like this:

try this stackexchange.com/oauth/…

3:40 AM

@ManishEarth Yah, like that.

@Undo deleting one of my own comments didn't work :/

{
"items": [],
"quota_remaining": 9999,
"quota_max": 10000,
"has_more": false
}

> Scope

> With an empty scope, authentication will only allow an application to identify a user via the /me method. In order to access other information, different scope values must be sent. Multiple values may be sent in scope by comma or space delimitting them.

> read_inbox - access a user's global inbox
> no_expiry - access_token's with this scope do not expire
> write_access - perform write operations as a user 2.1
> private_info - access full history of a user's private actions on the site.

@ManishEarth Oh

@Undo are you able to delete your own comments?

@ManishEarth Haven't checked.

try

3:44 AM

@ManishEarth what url did you call?

@Undo api.stackexchange.com/docs/…

with an access token

@ManishEarth You have to POST it.

GET doesn't work

@Undo I used the api testing thingy

Oh

@ManishEarth Make sure you have errors enabled in the filter.

they are

3:47 AM

Huh

The token is correct too, with a different token it gives an error

Hrmph

I'm gonna try to delete:

This is a comment from the API! — Undo the Snowman 2 days ago

Oh.

> In practice, this method will never return an object.

@ManishEarth is the comment gone?

nope

@ManishEarth Did you turn preview to false?

oh

3:50 AM

Yep, worked for me

No idea why that's in there.

gone

@Undo I think preview checks for errors

@ManishEarth See if it works on other people's comments with your diamond.

yep

Hmm...

sounds useful.

@Undo tested the comment flag option yet?

3:52 AM

@ManishEarth Oh yes.

Don't get any ideas :P

oh right

@ManishEarth A command-line flagger gizmo!

@ManishEarth There's even a delete post method now.

scary

3:55 AM

I've been looking for voting methods, can't find any

api.stackexchange.com/docs/delete-answer

And you can edit posts

And cast close votes

@Undo api.stackexchange.com/docs/upvote-answer

Huh

Eeeek

Why couldn't I find that?

I was doing create-answer-upvote and the like.

hahaha

@Undo Try to list all the stuff you find in a shared gdoc

The unofficial API 2.2 docs :P

@ManishEarth Where at?

@Undo google doc

one sec

@Undo docs.google.com/document/d/…

@Undo add yourself to the access list over there, then I can put it in read only mode

4:07 AM

Sorry, dropped off the Interwebs for a second :P

@ManishEarth Done, I think.

yep

if Chris wants I can add him too.

we can just jot down useful stuff there

Sounds good.

And now you know my name again :P

heh

Hmm, api.stackexchange.com/docs/create-comment-flag only takes one id. Bummer

done

You and your mod powers

@Undo Why isn't there jquery on charcoal?

4:19 AM

@ManishEarth There is.

gtg

And do you mind if I add jquery? I'm working on an autoflagger

hm

@ManishEarth Goforit.

I hate mobile Google Drive. Should really use the app.

Oh, they do have an app don't they.

Nope. Google doesn't make apps. That's a preposterous idea.

4:28 AM

Oh

@ManishEarth There has to be a list of the 2.2 methods somewhere, right?

So what are we putting in terms of the methods in the document?

@Undo I looked for it, couldn't find

@hichris123 any unlisted write methods or useful tidbits

@hichris123 Just the plain list of links, with paragraphs at the top for special stuff.

@Undo First I'll commit some code that adds some HTML classes and ids, which will make life easier.

Go for it.

4:30 AM

I mean with the etc's, what aren't we putting in?

@hichris123 Just throw whatever you want in.

@hichris123 the obvious stuff: upvote-answer implies downvote-answer and upvote-question and all. But feel free to explitify that :P

Ah, I was thinking like flag-comment and flag-post

@Undo care to update Charcoal from Git?

@ManishEarth Sure, whenever you want.

4:34 AM

now would be nice :P

Ok

@Manish What did you add?

Let's see, just a git pull, right?

Once that is done I can write oodles of javascript on client side without having to poke you every few minutes for a test

@hichris123 a couple of classes and a data- attribute

Done, I think

4:38 AM

@Undo once more, I made a booboo :P

Ok

There

thanks :)

no problem

5:42 AM

@Undo around? I'll need a pull in a minute (not just yet)

5:52 AM

@Undo pull please :)

8:19 AM

@Undo I think I have gotten a working comment collector thingy now, but I'm not sure

@Undo I have an idea: Why not add a dev version on /charcoaldev? Let it use the same db (or an old copy of the db), and give me an extra PHP script that runs a git pull to the dev page (<?php exec("git pull"); or something). That way I can mess around without needing to poke you every time, and without breaking things :P

An open source project I work with has that. There is a "sandbox" site, which devs can update by calling a particular command in the presence of an IRC bot. The main site can only be updated by the core devs

Quick explanation of the new UI:

Whatever comments are ticked before validating are added to a queue. If you tick all comments in the context, the post ID is added to a different queue instead.

Every few minutes, just go to the top, select the correct flag option, click Generate, copy paste the generated code into the JS console on the relevant site, and run. It will slowly flag the posts (the current throttle is 5.1 seconds between each flag; I forgot the ratelimits for comment flag and custom flags and will need to recheck)

For the queued posts, you can batch-flag them with the same flag message using the second set of controls.

ThiefMaster

12:19 PM

> If you tick all comments in the context, the post ID is added to a different queue instead.

I think the actual comment IDs should be preserved anyway

While there is a "purge all comments" function in the mod menu it would also nuke future comments which might be worth keeping

1:23 PM

@ManishEarth I'm around now!

Holy cow, you made that? It looks amazing.

@ThiefMaster Oh, I made a typo - I was thinking comment ID, and wrote post ID.

@Undo oy

there?

Yep!

Pulled

I was going to ask you to wait till I rebooted into linux, but oh well :P

@ManishEarth Oh :P

one sec, be back and then I'll debug

1:27 PM

Ok

Test it out if you want

I will.

is it borked?

Not yet.

Right now I'm working on /charcoaldev

ah

1:33 PM

@ManishEarth Ok, cloned everything down.

yay

Ok, it's half borked. The post thing works, but the comment thing doesn't. Hmmmm

I just noticed that.

makes more hmmmming noises

It's probably the magicky slicing I've done

I have a pull.php file in /charcoaldev that looks like this: <?php exec("git pull");

But I doubt it works, because I always need to be sudo to use it.

How do I get around that? Can I allow Apache to sudo that one command?

@Undo setuid

ok, minor js borks

Q: Allow Apache to execute git pull

1:38 PM

1

Haven't been able to figure this out yet.. I've seen a few answers around but none of them help. I'm trying to use Github Webhooks to have github hit a url on my server and have the server pull down newly committed items as soon as that hits. I have a php script with the following: <?php `git p...

Aha!

@Undo bows to the stackoverlords

.....

I'm an idiot

(made some stupid mistakes)

@Undo pull plz :)

@ManishEarth /charcoaldev is all working. Try it out.

pull.php

yay nice

1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

spooky

I know, right?

@Undo same db or different db?

1:47 PM

@ManishEarth Same one. Do we need a different one?

I can do that.

Nah.

I'll make a different smaller one.

If it was different I could mash keyboards with impunity, but no need.

I feel like making a new DB today :P

@ManishEarth it's on a DB copy now.

I''ll probably slim it down so it takes up less space.

time to mash keyboards! HULK SMASH

1:51 PM

Hehehe

@Undo now challenge Oded to break into your dev tier

@ManishEarth Hmm...

He would just put some kind of injection in the next data dump.

@ManishEarth Just curious, how do you edit the code? Just with GitHub's native thingy, or what?

@ManishEarth we have a problem

@Undo Randomly. Right now, Github thingy. In the morning, I was first using gedit and a local working directory, then switched to github after coming back from a snack

@Undo ?

the code all assumes that it's in the /charcoal directory, and all the links redirect to there.

So you don't end up staying in /charcoaldev

uh oh

2:00 PM

@ManishEarth how do we fix that?

@Undo Will relative paths work? Or do you want a config option?

@ManishEarth Whatever works best :P

@ManishEarth but what are config options?

@Undo An extra variable/method in config.php that will set the URL

@ManishEarth That would be nice.

Then we could have extra little debug things in the dev tier (that's soo fun to say), right?

@Undo that too

2:04 PM

It would sure be nice...

Then we would .gitignore config.php, right?

@Undo yes. Why not rename creds.php to config.php?

@ManishEarth No reason why not.

@Undo have a look at the new readme

@ManishEarth Looks awesome :D

Ryan Carlson

Why is Charcoal only for SO, Server Fault, and a few other sites?

2:09 PM

@RyanCarlson Primarily because I have to import the data by hand. Where else should it be?

(beta sites won't work yet)

Ryan Carlson

Ah

Personally, I think it should be for every site.

But that's a bit time consuming

@RyanCarlson I do too. I just have no way to automate it

@Undo Alright, move creds.php for both to config.php, add the two extra lines (be sure to set the dev function to true in the dev version), and then git pull

I need to pop off for a bit, be back

@ManishEarth Ok

the comment collector seems to be working aside from some minor things which I can fix.

If it does work, flagging with Charcoal will be 90% less annoying because no more of that flag-wait-for-ratelimit-flag stuff :P

2:15 PM

Yay!

Oh, @Undo, I also will need to know the ratelimits for comment flags and custom post flags -- feel free to flagspam Physics (with real flags though, not random ones) and I can clear them when I get back (5 mins)

@ManishEarth Ok, when I get done with this.

I'd bet they're the same as the UI limits.

gtg

Uh oh, charcoal's borked.

@Undo works for me

@ManishEarth I just fixed it

See latest commit.

oh ninja magic

oh I see

shakes fist at GitHub editor for adding extra quotation marks

2:24 PM

Hehe

Sublime Text does the same thing.

@Undo pull on main again, had to fix some additional borking

Ok

Done

2:44 PM

@Undo check it out on dev now

It ought to be working

2:57 PM

I think the feature is done then

no wait

forgot the best part. the mod stuff!!111 :P

3:35 PM

Mod stuff now working

So what happened while I was asleep, @Manish?

@hichris123 I added a totally awesome feature

@Manish Does it work?

The one on charcoaldev does

Not sure if the one on charcoal does

(Undo added a dev site)

Give me a sec to login to Charcoal

So is dev just another tab?

3:37 PM

@hichris123 nah. /charcoaldev

Runs on a different db, and newer code

Yeah, you kind of broke Charcoal regular

@Undo pull on regular plz?

@hichris123 where broke?

@Manish Also on dev. I'm on Chrome, when I click on SO in the tabs it displays your new fancy thing at the top, but no comments.

works for me

@hichris123 try clicking more tabs

@Manish It works fine if I'm on Physics (the main one), but whenever I click off of Physics it doesn't

3:46 PM

hmm

maybe Undo did some strange settings for charcoaldev

Maybe...

Let's try on IE9...

It works on IE9, but not Chrome 33.0.1712.4 @Manish.

huh

I'm on chrome

I'm on Chrome Dev tier, so that might have something to do with it

You?

@hichris123 probably yes

Chrome Beta. or stable

dunno

You want me to try it on Chrome Canary? :)

@Manish So do I just copy and past the script into the Console on SO?

4:01 PM

@hichris123 yeah

not yet fully tested though, so keep an eye on your flag history

if it works, you should get an entry in the console (and flag history) every 5 seconds

Okay, I'm getting this script:

var taskList=[];
var flagoption=22;
var originallength=taskList.length;
POSTFlag=function (){
if(taskList.length>0){
	console.log("Flagging comment #"+(originallength - taskList.length+1) +" of "+  originallength)
	$.post("/flags/comments/"+taskList.shift()+"/add/"+flagoption,
		JSON.parse('{"fkey":"'+StackExchange.options.user.fkey+'","otherText":""}'),
		function(){console.log('(done)');setTimeout(POSTFlag,5100);}
	);
}else{
	console.log("Finished");
}
}
POSTFlag()

Is that what it's supposed to be?

Oh, do you have to click the checkboxes, and not valid?

No, it's still not working, with the same script.

@hichris123 There's nothing in tasklist

@hichris123 Um, have you done any ticking of checkboxes?

Oh, nevermind.

I get it now.

You click the checkboxes, then click valid.