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@hichris123 So, ws://sockets.ny.stackexchange.com works like this: You first send it what you want (in this case "155-questions-active", let's call this the "data type"), and it responds with data corresponding to that.

You can also give it multiple data types (just send them one after the other), and it will return everything it gets for each one, with the results tagged according to which datatype they correspond to. The number "155" is site id, for example, SuperUser is like 3-*-*. (eg 3-questions-new). I guess 155 is for stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

so, 155-posts-active?

ManishEarth

dunno

Jan Dvorak

4:53 PM

it would be awesome; try it out

ManishEarth

@JanDvorak you can test with websocket.org/echo.html

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Jan Dvorak

posts doesn't seem to work; nor does answers

it would be nice to have it documented somewhere

155-questions-new doesn't seem to return anything either

hichris123

@ManishEarth So basically you could go through that instead of the API?

Jan Dvorak

5:11 PM

wait, you're using the API to get the question feed? I'm using the websocket

hichris123

@JanDvorak No, we're using the websocket. I was saying for retrieving the answers of a question...

ManishEarth

6:17 PM

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Doorknob of Snow

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Q: How do the Stack Exchange WebSockets work? What are all the options you can send to them?

The Stack Exchange WebSockets are handy for various things (like handling spam). For example, try running this JavaScript in your browser's console: var w = new WebSocket("ws://sockets.ny.stackexchange.com/"); w.onmessage = function(e) { console.log(e) }; w.onopen = function() { w.send("155-ques...

Undo

@DoorknobofSnow yes. yes yes yes. me wants answer!

Seth

6:30 PM

I always miss the spam D:

Undo

Me too ;(

hichris123

I hope the devs realize that if they don't tell us, we'll just write scripts to try things :P — Undo 6 mins ago

Or we just ping people until we get the answer. :P

Undo

It's true!

hichris123

@Undo Is there a way you know of to get what page the user is on, and then make that page the "active" page in the NavBar?

Undo

@hichris123 Uhmm... uh...

I suppose there's a way to get the current URL somewhere.

hichris123

6:34 PM

googles this...

Jan Dvorak

window.location, you mean?

Undo

In PHP, methinks

Not JS

hichris123

Yeah, PHP.

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Q: How to get URL of current page in PHP

In PHP, how can I get the URL of the current page? Preferably just the parts after http://domain.com.

php

This looks promising...

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Well then... :P

Undo

ha

hichris123

6:54 PM

Ooh, I'm getting closer...

ManishEarth

@hichris123 yeah

hichris123

7:25 PM

@Undo Got the NavBar! 54.236.239.138/close.php

Undo

@hichris123 Yay!

hichris123

Doesn't look too too bad... I still do need to format it. :P

ManishEarth

7:38 PM

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Seth

8:39 PM

what the

ManishEarth

@Seth ?

Seth

That title...

btw, <siteid>-home-active looks hopful

hichris123

Self-vandalized.

Seth

I hate it when that happens.

Jan Dvorak

@Seth does it hold the answer bodies?

Seth

8:41 PM

@JanDvorak I doubt it.. (I've never used websockets before, still figuring that out)

ManishEarth

@Seth no, it doesn't hold the answer bodies :(

Seth

@ManishEarth Does it give us the question ID at least?

We could maybe query the API from then on, it would be expensive, but doable.

Jan Dvorak

@Seth so does the network feed

Seth

@JanDvorak yeah true.

ManishEarth

@Seth we would have to query the api for every question

Seth

8:43 PM

but the home-active would be useful for per site spam bots

@ManishEarth I know :-/

@hichris123 If you're interested in reading edit wars read this one: askubuntu.com/posts/246146/revisions?page=1

A live answers feed would definitely be the best..

hichris123

@Seth Gosh.

Undo

9:03 PM

$ python ws.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ws.py", line 35, in <module>
    ws = websocket.create_connection("ws://sockets.ny.stackexchange.com/")
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'create_connection'

@ManishEarth ^ Any ideas?

ws = websocket.create_connection("ws://sockets.ny.stackexchange.com/") //35
ws.send("155-questions-active")
while True:
  a=ws.recv()

hichris123

import something?

@Undo import websocket

Undo

gotit

had the wrong websocket-client installed

hichris123

How can you have the wrong websocket-client?

Undo

I dunno. But uninstalling and reinstalling did it :P

hichris123

MYSQL WORK!

Undo

9:09 PM

YAY!

hichris123

^ That's what I fel right now.

@Undo It didn't work yet.

:(

Undo

;(

hichris123

I need a tutorial. :P

2014-02-01 16:07:03 - Starting server...
2014-02-01 16:07:05 - Status check of service 'MySQL57' returned start pending
2014-02-01 16:07:05 - Server start done.
2014-02-01 16:07:05 - Status check of service 'MySQL57' returned start pending
2014-02-01 16:07:11 - Server is stopped

ManishEarth

@Undo from websocket import *

or import websocket

syntax

Undo

Got that one fixed

ManishEarth

9:12 PM

python has two ways of using modules

hichris123

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 14 secs ago, by Bart

First @Manishearth turns this into Physics chat. Now he turns it into Javascript chat. What will he try next? :p

Undo

@ManishEarth How do I get the first x characters of a string?

hichris123

@Undo When/if I ever get this up, you're going to write a blog post on it. :P

Undo

:P

ManishEarth

@Undo "abc"[0:x]

Undo

9:21 PM

@ManishEarth Ok, lemme try it.

Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 551, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 504, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "ws.py", line 25, in handlespam
    m=d[0:5]
TypeError: unhashable type

@ManishEarth ^ ;(

ManishEarth

what did you dooooo

oh

is d a string?

Undo

I hope so :P

def handlespam(data):
  d=json.loads(json.loads(data)["data"])
  s=(d["titleEncodedFancy"].encode("ascii","xmlcharrefreplace"),d["url"]);
  m=d[0:5]
  print m

Ooooh

I see it.

ManishEarth

@Undo whatcha making? the push? In that case, cut out the chatbrowser bits

hichris123

@Manish Do you know any MySQL magic?

Undo

@ManishEarth Already did.

I forked your repo on GH

It works!

And now I've got to go. Cya folks!

hichris123

9:27 PM

Cya!

Aha!

2014-02-01T21:26:04.252966Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: File .\ib_logfile0: 'aio read' returned OS error 187. Cannot continue operation
2014-02-01T21:26:04.253966Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.

2014-02-01 16:34:12 - Status check of service 'MySQL57' returned start pending

2014-02-01 16:34:12 - Server start done.

2014-02-01 16:34:12 - Status check of service 'MySQL57' returned start pending

2014-02-01 16:34:18 - Server is running

2014-02-01 16:34:19 - Server is running

Yay!

@Undo I fixed it! :P

I almost feel like making an SO post on it...

hichris123

10:38 PM

Hiya @Undo!

Undo

Hiya!

hichris123

Me likey when stuff is fixed. :P

Undo

Me does too

hichris123

/* Delimiter changed to ; */
/* Connecting to localhost via MySQL (TCP/IP), username , using password: Yes ... */
/* Connected. Thread-ID: 6 */

Undo

:D

hichris123

10:41 PM

Yep.

All I had to do was add innodb_flush_method=normal to my my.ini. :P

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