# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 13
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/7g3ezoa
@movq Do you know how I would find people that reply to my posts or replies or even mention my users? Prologic tried to contact me and unless I found him on the yarn pod then I would not know he exists and wants to talk to me. The user agents would work but I don't know if I can view my web server logs from codeberg pages and I don't know how to monitor my logs for mentions. What about the way yarn does it by added people you follow to your twtxt file and having friends of friends like yarn does it be a thing for jenny. Just an idea
@jason Yeah, that’s the weakest point of raw twtxt: Discoverability. If you don’t have access to your server’s logs, then you’ll have a hard time finding out if someone mentioned you. 🫤
In the beginning, jenny actually used to include the list of people that you follow in the twtxt file. This has later been changed for privacy reasons. (You can still include such a list at the top of your feed, but you’d have to do it manually or with a script or something.)
The huge advantage of Yarn is that it’s a server-side application. When someone fetches your feed, Yarn will know and it can tell you. That’s just not possible with plain files. 🫤
(btw, the URL to my feed should include a www.. Since you omitted that, my jenny didn’t highlight your messages. 😅)
@jason Yeah, that’s the weakest point of raw twtxt: Discoverability. If you don’t have access to your server’s logs, then you’ll have a hard time finding out if someone mentioned you. 🫤
In the beginning, jenny actually used to include the list of people that you follow in the twtxt file. This has later been changed for privacy reasons. (You can still include such a list at the top of your feed, but you’d have to do it manually or with a script or something.)
The huge advantage of Yarn is that it’s a server-side application. When someone fetches your feed, Yarn will know and it can tell you. That’s just not possible with plain files. 🫤
(btw, the URL to my feed should include a www.. Since you omitted that, my jenny didn’t highlight your messages. 😅)
@jason Yeah, that’s the weakest point of raw twtxt: Discoverability. If you don’t have access to your server’s logs, then you’ll have a hard time finding out if someone mentioned you. 🫤
In the beginning, jenny actually used to include the list of people that you follow in the twtxt file. This has later been changed for privacy reasons. (You can still include such a list at the top of your feed, but you’d have to do it manually or with a script or something.)
The huge advantage of Yarn is that it’s a server-side application. When someone fetches your feed, Yarn will know and it can tell you. That’s just not possible with plain files. 🫤
(btw, the URL to my feed should include a www.. Since you omitted that, my jenny didn’t highlight your messages. 😅)
@lyse also has a nice log parser too somewhere that helps with parsing your access logs to find this out that supports the extensions 👌
@lyse also has a nice log parser too somewhere that helps with parsing your access logs to find this out that supports the extensions 👌
@prologic First I would have to be able to get to my logs and I don't think i can
@jason Yeah that's sadly the downside of not controlling the server you host your feed on.
@jason Yeah that's sadly the downside of not controlling the server you host your feed on.
@prologic I don't know any other way to host my file at my domain unless I make a sub domain. I am going to ask codeberg if they offer access of logs.
@jason Ahh this is hosted on codeberg? Gotcha 👌 You'd have the same problem on Github Pages too I guess.
@jason Ahh this is hosted on codeberg? Gotcha 👌 You'd have the same problem on Github Pages too I guess.
@prologic Yeah this is hosted at codeberg pages. Yeah the same issue would happen with github pages.