quassel-search-go

quassel-search-go

Quassel log text search server written in Go

This project was inspired by a friend's observation about Quassel's lack of backlog search (without having to scroll up a lot to load historical messages for a single channel) and my recent attendance of a Go talk. It was a fun small-scope project for learning Go.

New Install Instructions (Vagrant/Ansible)

These instructions create a local VM with vagrant, install quassel-core and quassel-search-go, and run both.

1. Install vagrant and ansible.
2. Run vagrant up in the repo directory (this should also run the ansible provisioning, if not, run vagrant provision)
   1. Give vagrant as the sudo password
3. Connect to the core at localhost:4242 with a quassel client and follow the configuration wizard.
   1. Currently only sqlite is supported as a backend. Postgres coming soon, maybe.
   2. If you visit localhost:4243 before completing the above step, you'll probably just get a 500 response because tables haven't been made in the db yet.
4. Visit localhost:4243 and search your quassel logs!

Old Install Instructions

Note: Running this program shows your IRC logs (including private channel messages) on port 4243 by default. If you make this program/port externally visible then anyone will be able to see all your messages. An alternative is to ssh tunnel (ssh -L 4243:<remote hostname or ip>:4243 <user>@<remote hostname or ip>) so that traffic to localhost:4243 will go to the remote server's port 4243.

Try the appropriate binary if you're on linux (in which case skip to step 3). Otherwise, follow the first few steps to compile it yourself.

1. Install Go: http://golang.org/doc/install
2. Get the dependencies:
   1. go get "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3"
   2. go get "github.com/lib/pq"
   3. go get "code.google.com/p/gcfg"
3. Build with go build
4. Edit the config (conf.gcfg) file to use your database type (and credentials)
5. Run the binary

   • Note: If you're using sqlite3, then you will probably need to run the binary as the quassel user with a command like the following:

     sudo su - quasselcore -s "/bin/sh" -c "cd /path/to/binary; ./quassel-search-go"

Acknowledgements

Thanks to everyone involved with Go and its documentation!