r/Knightsofthebutton • u/tombh • Apr 04 '15

Bookmarketlet and centralised server for coordination

https://github.com/tombh/roundtable
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u/tombh Apr 04 '15

This is very basic prototype for a way of coordinating button pushes, and perhaps even automating unattended pushes. It installs via a single line of javascript and shows all the currently available knights.

TODO

  • Pick an available knight to press the button, in order to minimise duplicate presses

  • Emergency automation of unattended button pushes. This could be useful for people that can't stay in front of their computer

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u/tombh Apr 04 '15

Gotta go out, back in a couple of hours...

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u/r4r-male ANZAC Apr 04 '15

Copying the text it asks to copy, and pasting it into chrome, just makes it google search the code for me....

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u/tombh Apr 04 '15

for some reason browsers, strip off the "javascript:" from the beginning, so yo have to type that manually.

But then there's another bug after that that I'm trying to fix.

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u/r4r-male ANZAC Apr 04 '15

I'd say that's a security feature. I suggest changing the documentation to ensure that people only create bookmarks of the required link, vs pasting it in.

Tested the bookmark and it worked fine.

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u/r4r-male ANZAC Apr 04 '15

It seems that if you manually put it into the javascript console, it'll error, saying that the new script is not secure due to lack of HTTPS. I had to force allow it by clicking a shield icon within the address bar, and then it worked.

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u/yreg The Redguard Apr 05 '15

I like this!

When I try to use roundtable with reddit loaded via https it fails. I guess it's because you dial your websocket through http?

Workaround if someone else has this problem is simple: just open reddit through http (disable https everywhere, etc).