URL history

[julianolf]

As mentioned on issue #1 it would be great having access to the history of all url sent to the channels/groups.

1. All urls recognized by the bot should be recorded with the following information: channel, date and time, sender, short version* of the url and page title.
2. A command, that accept a few parameters for filtering, should return those saved urls. Filters like channel, sender, date and title keywords must be enough.
3. The history must be sent to the user who requested as a private message.

* If the url is greater than 75 characters create a short version using the same service that the plugin described on issue #1 uses.

[julianolf]

The command could be !hurl [amount] [filter]

Where:

• !hurl - the command name
• [amount] - the number of registers or just the most recent if omitted
• [filter] - keywords for filtering the registers, it could be as following:
• • #channel - starting by an hash filter by channel
• • @Nickname - starting by an (at) filter by user
• • 2017-07-29 - ISO date patter filter by date
• • anything else - filter by page title

PS1. Maybe the #channel/group is unnecessary, it could be always filtered by the channel where the user runs the command.

PS2. If all parameters are omitted the command returns just the last url.

[bmeneg]

I think #channel is nice when the same bot runs on two different channels that are related, right now there aren't any use case in fact, but think about two different channels about two different projects but from the same team, would be nice if they could exchange info among them (in this case urls).

Maybe a better approach would be: when #channel is omitted the filter runs over the data from the channel the user sent the command and when specified the filter would act over that specific channel's data history.

What do you think?

[julianolf]

I'm worried about privacy issues. I mean not all channels are public and the bot may be in more than one channel at the same time and some of then can be private. I really think we should keep the history access restricted to the user's channel.

[bmeneg]

@julianolf right, I understand your concern :)